Archive for March, 2009

• Foreign Tickers on Stocktwits…NOW!
  StockTwits, March 28th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  We now have support for these exchanges: FSE (Frankfurt), LSE (London), TSE (Toronto), NYSE, AMEX, NDQ, INDEX, CME, FX.
  The way it works: you can add the symbol as usual $SYMBOL, for foreign exchanges you can do the same but we will default to US stocks if there is a duplicate symbol. IF you want to [...]

• MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Mar 29, 2009
  StockTwits, March 28th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Transcript from Brunch with @tickerville (and evil twin @tickerville2) below. Had some great participation this week. Check in again next week for the StockTwits Brunch with @tickerville; 10am-12pm every Saturday morning.

  bimmertrader: Mar. 28 at 12:03
  $$ thanks @tickerville another great brunch. anyone looking to learn trading i would recommend his [...]

• StockTwits Brunch: March 28, 2009
  StockTwits, March 28th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Transcript from Brunch with @tickerville (and evil twin @tickerville2) below. Had some great participation this week. Check in again next week for the StockTwits Brunch with @tickerville; 10am-12pm every Saturday morning.

  bimmertrader: Mar. 28 at 12:03
  $$ thanks @tickerville another great brunch. anyone looking to learn trading i would recommend his [...]

• New StockTwits on WordPress
  StockTwits, March 25th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  We are very excited to launch our new StockTwits blog this morning.  We believe that WordPress offers a revolutionary publishing platform which will play a critical role in the expression and sharing of information today and going forward and we intend to be there innovating and getting great voices heard.
  This marks the very beginning of [...]

• StockTwits reaction to Timmy G’s plan
  StockTwits, March 23rd, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Cognitive dissonance at its finest?
  The market reacted quite favorably to the U.S. Treasury’s so called ‘Toxic Asset Plan’ while many, including a large portion of the StockTwits community, think it will be the latest huge embarassing failure via Washington.  Consensus on the StockTwits feed seems to indicate they’ll take the bounce for what it’s worth.
  We [...]

• StockTwits users all over it…again
  StockTwits, March 20th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  The theme of the week, in market news as well as mainstream media, can be summed up in three letters: A-I-G.   The chatter was inescapable.  Six year olds were observed debating AIG’s payment of bonuses despite accepting hundreds of billions of federal bailout money.   The talking heads were quick to focus on this fact knowing [...]

• StockTwits Etiquette
  StockTwits, March 18th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Our intent on StockTwits is to add value and build community.
  To do so we have learned that a few simple guidelines, if followed most of the time by the majority, will promote such intent.
  Adding Value
  When you tag a tweet with a $ for inclusion to the stream you will want it to add value for [...]

• StockTwits is looking for a rockstar Flex developer
  StockTwits, March 17th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Want to join the StockTwits team? StockTwits is looking for a rockstar Flex developer.
  To Apply:
  1) Build a quick and dirty Flex application that uses the StockTwits XML or JSON API located at http://stocktwits.com/streams/all.xml and http://stocktwits.com/streams/all.json respectively. The application should check for new updates once a minute and display them similar to the streams [...]

• MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Mar 15, 2009
  StockTwits, March 16th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  @gregormacdonald hosted the MacroTwits hour again this past Sunday.  As usual China, Oil, Gold and US Treasuries were the dominant themes.  Gregor’s biggest takeaway from the past week:

  If you ask me, the Story of the Week came at the tail end. The Premier of China expressing open worry about Treasuries. $$

  Transcript is broken into [...]

• StockTwits Brunch Transcript Sat Mar 14, 2009
  StockTwits, March 16th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Get some new trading ideas for the week and beyond in the latest StockTwits Brunch with @tickerville.  Edited for size.
  StockTwits Brunch Saturday March 14th, 2009 Part I
  StockTwits Brunch Saturday March 14th, 2009 Part II
  StockTwits Brunch Saturday March 14th, 2009 Part III
  Stop by every Saturday morning from 10-12 to talk charts with our boy @tickerville.
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