We are delighted to announce that Blain Reinkensmeyer, author of popular stock blog StockTradingToGo has joined Covestor as our Community Manager. Blain is uniquely experienced for the role. He has built up his own blog/forum to nearly 5,000 members worldwide, and formerly worked as a community moderator for both […]
Today we announced a content sharing partnership with leading financial media company TheStreet.com, which will be of great value to our community. As part of the agreement, members will shortly be able to distribute their profiles and commentary relating to their actual stock trades in TheStreet.coms StreetPicks section. In other […]
This week’s Wall Street Transcript Interview is with Covestor member Michael Arold, aka sunshine_micha. Michael works in marketing for a software company and trades part time on the side. You can read his daily market thoughts on his blog, Sunshine Trader. Michael is a short term swing trader, holding his […]
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As you may be aware if you use TD Ameritrade as your online broker, they have recently instituted some new security measures in the form of four additional questions that users have to select and provide answers for on TD Ameritrade’s site. If you are setting up an account on […]
Today we announced the close of our Series A funding led by Union Square Ventures (USV) and Spark Capital. They are joined by one of Europe’s leading technology investors, Amadeus Capital Partners. Between them these firms have over $2 billion under management. This a great news for the team here […]
Following on from great press coverage in his native Newfoundland, this weeks Wall Street Transcript Interview is with Covestor member Fred Penney. Fred works as an engineer in the civil construction industry, and is also the author of stock blog Another Stock Blog. Fred has been investing for around 20 […]
The Financial Times ran an interesting piece this weekend about Investors worldwide pulling almost $100bn out of equity funds in the first three months of this year – a record shift, and part of a long term trend away from the US market. The article goes on: The outflows also […]
With the emergency 0.25 point rate cut over the weekend, and the news that JP Morgan have bought Bear Stearns for $2/share (a valuation of c$235m) it is going to be an interesting week in the markets. A number of members have already shared their views on what falling interest […]
Talking about the opportunity presented by high commodity prices Bob Freedland - Talking about how he is reacting to the volatile conditions Sean Hannon -
This week’s interview is with Covestor member Tom Carlson, aka tmantrader. As Tom explains on his profile, he retired from corporate life in 2006 and now trades full time – managing both long term and short term accounts. Tom is largely a technical trader, who having trained as an actuary, […]
The current edition of The Economist has a special report on asset management. The first article, by Philip Coggan, The Economist’s Capital Markets Editor, highlights how the fund management industry has and continued to do very well, but for itself. Here’s a quote from the introductory paragraph: Imagine a business […]