Archive for August, 2009

• Measure Market Sentiment in a Stock Before You Place a Trade!
  NASDAQ, August 31st, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Gauging market sentiment and knowing whether activity is bullish or bearish in a particular stock can be difficult to measure. Previously, sentiment was measured on a trading floor and required the person to have good instincts and a lot of experience.  Now, with NASDAQ Velocity and Forces, you can detect surges in trading interest before [...]

• Micro Caps and StockTwits (cont’d)
  Jeremy Stein, August 27th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Over the past week we have noticed an increase in the volume of micro caps on the stream. This has also increased noise and cheerleading of stocks trading under $1.
  At StockTwits, our goal is to maintain a stream containing high quality actionable information. Further, we will not allow some of our novice community members to be [...]

• How to Use StockTwits: The Portfolio Stream
  justin, August 27th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Many traders like to only follow a certain universe, or subset of stocks, commodities, or currency pairs when they trade.  StockTwits allows you to do this with the Portfolio Stream.  With the Portfolio Stream, you are able to filter out and view messages about a portfolio of ticker symbols that you choose.
  How to Set Up [...]

• NASDAQ @DataJunkies #RingtheBell Winners
  ppearlman, August 25th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  We are ecstatic to be ringing the closing bell at the NASDAQ today!
  The @DataJunkies #ringthebell campaign has been a hoot so far and NASDAQ has graciously opened up its doors to our community.
  We will have a bunch of great people who have been closely involved with us since day one. But even more awesome are [...]

• How to Use StockTwits: The Friends Stream
  justin, August 20th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  During the trading day, there is so much information and ideas coming at you on the stream, that, it may be overwhelming.  Some may find it helpful to filter through all the information and put together a stream of what you consider to be valuable, and this can be accomplished with the Friends Stream.
  Below I [...]

• Conversation with Howard and The CME Group
  jamross, August 19th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Today, our benevolent sponsor @HowardLindzon had a wonderful twinterview with the @CMEGroup about all things social finance. Here is the transcript:

  CMEGroup: @Genevangelist Good point! We never even had a chance to discuss Stocktwits.tv @howardlindzon Anything you want to add? #exchtalk
  8 minutes ago from TweetDeck

  Genevangelist: @howardlindzon @CMEGroup Don’t forget StockTwits.tv This is going to [...]

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  Streaming Real-Time Prices via @DataJunkies
  NASDAQ, August 17th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  By now you may have noticed that @DataJunkies is steaming real-time prices into Twitter and StockTwits. We monitor the most tweeted about and automatically return five or six real-time stock prices of those most tweeted about tickers stocks using the NASDAQ Last Sale data feed.
  We have now launched new categories of real-time stock prices to [...]

• StockTwits Bull Bear Survey
  kileyay, August 14th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Predict what the $SPX will do over the course of the next week! Please respond to this survey before mightnight on Sunday, August 16th:

• Contest: Ring the NASDAQ Closing Bell in Times Square!
  NASDAQ, August 13th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Please see the full recap.
  If you’re a  NASDAQ Data Junkie, then you know that the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York is where all the action is. To recognize how much we appreciate all the Data Junkies’s out there, NASDAQ is excited to announce a contest to give you a [...]

• 3 Awesome Market Previews from StockTwits Best 081209
  ppearlman, August 12th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  We have three awesome blog posts from the best of the StockTwits Network this morning which provide ample perspective for the trading day and into the end of the week.
  @Alphatrends serves up key levels and analysis on the $SPY here.
  @UpsideTrader previews the Fed with eagle eye and much more here.
  And new to the StockTwits Network, [...]