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Talk Your Book on StockTwitsTV
StockTwits, StockTwits | January 8th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
We are playing around with a new program for StockTwitsTV. Its called Talk Your Book and it will allow our community members to get much more involved in TV content.
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Winners of the StockTwits $TWENTYTEN Contest with CME GROUP
StockTwits, StockTwits | January 7th, 2010 at 8:06 am Since announcing the $TWENTYTEN Contest in December asking our community for predictions for the coming year, StockTwits has received over 500 tweets with the tag.
We scoured the tweets and found a ton of insightful and witty stuff and so it was tough choosing only 8 people to receive a @CMEGroup Shwag Pack and interview with Howard Lindzon.
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StockTwits Poll: Catching the First 10% Move of the Year
StockTwits, StockTwits | January 3rd, 2010 at 1:06 pm The broad market will likely swing 10% multiple times this year and as the first week of trading approaches for 2010, we are interested in the direction of this first swing. Let us know what you think below:
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What will the $USDX do in $TWENTYTEN?
StockTwits, StockTwits | December 28th, 2009 at 7:23 am Please click continue reading to participate in the poll.
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How The Economist Can Participate in Social Media
StockTwits, StockTwits | December 23rd, 2009 at 9:41 am Earlier this week, The Financial Times reported that the The Economist plans to increase its social media presence significantly on Facebook and Twitter. They write:
Ben Edwards, publisher of Economist.com, hopes that Facebook will help his site acquire new readers and develop a “deeper level of engagement” with existing ones.
“We have a mission online of being the foremost destination for global discussion and debate, which is a social proposition,” Mr Edwards told the Financial Times.
This is great sign. Financial media are becoming more aware that social media is a great way to meaningfully connect with their audience and critical strategically.
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StockTwits $TWENTYTEN Contest with CME GROUP
StockTwits, StockTwits | December 15th, 2009 at 12:52 pm A couple of weeks back we added a new stream to StockTwits with the tag $TwentyTen where our community can add their market related predictions for the coming year. As well, bloggers and journalists who write prediction posts and articles can link to them using that tag.
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Welcome Thinking Trades to StockTwits Premium Blogs
StockTwits, StockTwits | December 9th, 2009 at 9:18 am The first time Vinaya Dhabareeya contacted me back in June, I must admit, I wasn’t sure who @ThinkingTrades was on StockTwits. He is a reserved guy and participated much less frequently than many others.
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Innovating Streams: Predictions for $TWENTYTEN and $EXCHTALK with @CMEGROUP
StockTwits, StockTwits | December 7th, 2009 at 11:10 am We continue to innovate our use of streams on StockTwits. To date, we have employed StockTwits streams mostly for assets and the Suggested List. We started with US Equities but have since added a few international equity market symbols, Forex, Chart.ly, futures and recently the Options Force Suggested List with @CBOE.
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Overheard on StockTwits: $BAC in Business
StockTwits, StockTwits | December 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 am Here's today's morning buzz: read more...
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StockTwits Closes a $3 Million Series B Round and Looks to 2010
StockTwits, StockTwits | December 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 am We are happy to announce that StockTwits has closed a $3m Series B financing round led by Foundry Group and returning investor True Ventures as well as Brad Feld.
Since launching a year ago, we have been moving very quickly to build a real time financial media company amid a landscape of transformation within the industry.
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CME Group Futures for the Individual Trader
StockTwits, StockTwits | December 1st, 2009 at 11:01 am The CME Group has an excellent educational introduction to futures traded on their Globex platform. This interactive tool will teach you how to get started trading futures, the benefits and risks, along with a few strategies. Topics such as, who participates in the futures markets and for what reason, leverage, liquidity, and transparency are all discussed in short informative videos. If you were ever interested in how the futures markets work, or want to get started trading these products, this tool is a must see. read more...
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How to Add Friends Lists in StockTwits Desktop
StockTwits, StockTwits | November 17th, 2009 at 3:21 pm A new feature recently added to StockTwits Desktop is Friends Lists. Friends Lists allow you to arrange your Desktop Friends in groups and view streams of their tweets. We walk you through how to set them up in the desktop below:
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Suggested StockTwits Tweets Available on Bloomberg
StockTwits, StockTwits | November 16th, 2009 at 10:04 am Professional traders who use the Bloomberg terminal to monitor markets and news can now get access each day to a selection of some of the best tweets from StockTwits. Bloomberg is well known for its News division, but the terminal also aggregates thousands of other sources pulled from RSS feeds of newspapers and Web sites.
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The StockTwits and CME Group Trader of the Week: TradingTheOdds
StockTwits, StockTwits | November 13th, 2009 at 11:43 am Each week StockTwits along with the CME Group will recognize a Futures or Forex trader who is trading well and adding tremendous value to the community. We are proud to announce @TradingTheOdds as the first StockTwits and CME Group Trader of the Week. read more...
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Financial Regulatory Reform – Make Your Voice Heard
StockTwits, StockTwits | November 12th, 2009 at 4:24 pm StockTwits has quickly become recognized as being a place where ideas are able to flow freely as debate over many different subjects takes place. After the disaster that was 2008 in the financial industry, many believe that large reforms to the financial regulatory system are needed. We want to facilitate this conversation and help shape future policy.
Below you will find 10 of the most important questions which need to be answered by both our government and major financial institutions. We want to know what you think and encourage you to use the comments section of this post as an open forum to discuss any and all of these topics. As well, we encourage you to link to your favorite blog posts or news articles which may represent how you feel regarding one of these questions. Please include the question title or number in your response as it will more easily organize the flow of ideas. Your opinion matters, make it heard. read more...
