Author Archive

• The Mindless Behind The Meltdown…
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 24th, 2010 at 11:27 am

  

  We are all collectively to blame for the market meltdown of 2007-2009.

  The Wall Street Journal has figured out NOT that the quants were behind the meltdown in this lovely STORY ‘The Minds Behind The Meltdown’.

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• Disrupting Wall Street
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 23rd, 2010 at 12:45 pm

  

  It’s fun and my life’s work to think about disrupting Wall Street.

  Sarah Lacy started the meme again a little while back and it is apparent she has never bought or sold a stock and maybe never been to a bank  .  NIce lady though.

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• Overheard on StockTwits: Cycla-SELL and @adamfeuerstein to the Rescue
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 21st, 2010 at 1:25 pm

  

  Yesterday while observing the StockTwits stream we noticed a really interesting conversation happening around$CYCC.

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• Howie’s All Time Highs: IMAX
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 21st, 2010 at 9:54 am

  

  Is 11th time the charm for $IMAX?

  Sometimes is just takes 20 years to be an overnight success.

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• Dear Bill Gates…How NOT To Use Twitter
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 20th, 2010 at 10:53 am

  

  Hi Bill:

  I noticed you were using Twitter …finally.

  Ironic that Steve Jobs would stab himself in the eye before using Twitter and his stock is hitting all-time highs on the eve of your first tweet.

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• StockTwits TV – $TwentyTen Interview with @KeithMccullough of Hedgeye
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 20th, 2010 at 7:50 am

  

  I sat down with @keithmccullough of Hedgeye.  Keith talks about Hedgeye, which is a really interesting product – a “virtual” hedge fund.   He also discusses his current investment themes, investing strategy, as well as his new book,  Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager.

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• The Week in Symbols at Stocktwits
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 19th, 2010 at 7:23 am

  

  It is fun to see how our community thinks about trading and investing.  We are attracting larger groups of futures and currency traders from looking at the charts and data.  Looking at it today, I am getting some new ideas on how to display the information next week.  Any ideas are welcome in the comments:

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• What is Goldman Sachs?
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 18th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

  

  That’s the question Lindsay hit the streets with back in 2006 for us at Wallstrip. The best answer…’They make a LOT of Money!’ (stick around for the very end for the second best answer)

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• What’s Hot: Israel ETF EIS
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 15th, 2010 at 12:05 pm

  

  I am headed to Israel to meet with a ton of startups in the first week of February.

  The Israel ETF $EIS has been on fire and near all-time highs.

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• Howie’s All Time Highs: Ambev ABV
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 14th, 2010 at 11:54 am

  

  $ABV

  Two words:

  Beer…Brazil

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• ‘G’ is for Google and Government in 2010
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 14th, 2010 at 7:56 am

  

  Other than Steve Jobs and option backdating, Apple has steered well clear of the government. Not so for Google.

  The biggest news of 2010 is Google and it’s run in with government…not even ours.

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• China…Shmina
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 13th, 2010 at 7:40 am

  

  I am not a China fan. Never been there.  No real interest. I can get smog and bad Chinese food in L.A. I do like Baidu.

  I am not a Japan fan. I have been to Japan.  Cool toilets.  Average sushi. Too far away.

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• The Great American Opportunity Machine…
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 12th, 2010 at 9:26 am

  

  In many ways, the negativity is thicker than in March 2009. The market has been rising into the increased negativity.

  When I get confused about things which is often, I like to take 10-20 steps back. I cut back my reading and go back to the basics. For me, that is the first few blogs I discovered on the internet – Brad Feld andFred Wilson and the all-time high list. Brad and Fred talk about big picture trends in web, mostly American innovation.

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• Howie’s All Time Highs: Dendreon DNDN
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 12th, 2010 at 7:50 am

  

  My Daughter Rachel and I like eating Chinese together at PF Chang’s.  We share the Dan Dan Noodles.

  Everytime I see biotech dendreon on the new high list with it’s ticker symbol $DNDN, I think of Dan Dan Noodles.

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• Sorry Zuckerberg/Facebook…The Age of Privacy Ended Long Ago
  Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon | January 11th, 2010 at 7:50 am

  

  I believe strongly in ‘User Controlled Privacy’.

  We have been abused by the old guard. Our names and financial info have been sold in disgusting ways. BUT, we have been lazy with our data. I don’t expect much to change or Facebook to behave any better than the last generation of data whores.

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