Author Archive
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Set FAZzers to “Done”
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | January 12th, 2010 at 7:40 am
While not a student of the markets as much lately, I am a student of StockTwits. I pore over the stream all day every day and today noticed something. Conversation in the Inverse ETF’s such as $FAZ and $SRS has virtually stopped. Below is a tag cloud of the most popular tickers on StockTwits today (click to enlarge):
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Does Investor Democracy Conflict with Political Democracy?
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 31st, 2009 at 7:43 am The idea for this post hit me the other day while hearing some news about Iran invading Iraq’s oilfields which consequently made oil rise. Having recently allocated some of my father’s retirement money into energy stocks, I got excited by this news – which is all other respects is not “good” news.
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Overheard on StockTwits: Did Someone Know Something?
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 30th, 2009 at 10:03 am This morning @OptionRadar pointed out that there was massive call buying in $LLL in the weeks leading up the the terrorist attempt on Christmas Day: read more...
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Is the $EURJPY Telling Us Something?
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 17th, 2009 at 10:24 am One currency pair that many traders watch is the $EURJPY. It’s historically been correlated with equity markets and is a good proxy on risk taking in the marketplace.
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Overheard on StockTwits: The Yield Game
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 11th, 2009 at 11:58 am Here's the StockTwits morning buzz: read more...
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Overheard on StockTwits: Party Like it’s 1999
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 10th, 2009 at 11:52 am Here's some of today's Morning Buzz: read more...
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Success on StockTwits: Be a User First
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 8th, 2009 at 3:40 pm Yesterday I came across a great tweet by @TheKwonz that served as inspiration for this post. I have published the tweet below: read more...
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Overheard on StockTwits: This Again?
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 8th, 2009 at 7:52 am Here's today's Morning Buzz: read more...
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Shoutout: @optionsizzle, @NJHounds, and $NYB
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 7th, 2009 at 2:17 pm Today, $NYB is up 11% after taking over the failed Amtrust Bank on Friday and announcing a 60 million share offering today.
While the deal was announced Friday night, there was actionable information on StockTwits on Friday afternoon. Below we have posted an awesome exchange between @optionsizzle and @NJHounds that illustrates how information is being shared, processed, and used for trades. read more...
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Overheard on StockTwits: Job Reactions
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 4th, 2009 at 12:00 pm Check out some of the Awesomeness on the StockTwits stream today: read more...
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Overheard on StockTwits: Jobs Friday
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 4th, 2009 at 8:13 am Here's today's morning buzz: read more...
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A Hedged Economy is an Economy that Beleives in Nothing
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 3rd, 2009 at 8:05 am Most think that the last decade was characterized by excessive risk-taking in the economy. While I do admit that as an economy we took on tons of debt, I think our problem was that we tried to avoid all risk whatsoever. The increasing desire to be completely hedged of all risk has resulted in a economy that essentially believes in nothing – and that’s a bad thing.
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Overheard on StockTwits: Gold Boom
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | December 2nd, 2009 at 8:07 am Here's today's Morning Buzz: read more...
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Overheard on Stocktwits: Cyber Monday
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | November 30th, 2009 at 5:13 pm Each day we peruse the StockTwits stream and bring you the daily buzz. Here's what we found today: read more...
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Overheard on StockTwits: Golden Bears
zerobeta, Justin Paterno | November 24th, 2009 at 11:53 am Each day we peer into StockTwits stream and bring you the morning awesomeness. Here's what we found today: read more...
