March 2009
17 posts
StockTwits reaction to Timmy G's plan
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 were...
StockTwits users all over it...again
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 it would enrage the ‘dumb masses’ and keep them tuned...
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StockTwits Etiquette
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 other members of our community. If it does, then it’s right. If it does not, then it is likely...
StockTwits is looking for a rockstar Flex...
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 on...
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Mar 15, 2009
@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 two parts; edited for size.
MacroTwits Transcript:...
StockTwits Brunch Transcript Sat Mar 14, 2009
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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StockTwits/LindzonPalooza In Effect
StockTwits/LindzonPalooza is three weeks away and we are gearing to party our faces off even as Rome burns.
In addition to sun, stocks, golf, food, and a Sun’s game, we are organizing an optional stock market and trading discussion with:
@upsidetrader @howardlindzon @AndySwan @alphatrends @ToddStottlemyre @sorenmacbeth @ppearlman
The estimated cost for room, food, suns game, and golf is...
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How to Use the Five StockTwits Streams (Great for...
A week or so ago we published on our site a Help Page which we think does a pretty good job of helping folks optimize their experience on StockTwits. One of the sections on that Help Page describes the five filters we have on StockTwits. I would like to take this blog post to go into more detail with regard to how I use the different filters throughout the day with the thought that this might...
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Mar 8, 2009
Oil, politics, and new-issue sovereign debt were dominant themes in the most recent MacroTwits hour with @gregormacdonald. Transcript is broken into two parts below. Edited for size.
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Mar 8, 2009 Part I
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Mar 8, 2009 Part II
StockTwits Brunch Transcript Sat Mar 7, 2009
Another great session with @tickerville last Saturday morning. Transcript broken into three parts below. Edited for length.
StockTwits Brunch Saturday March 7th, 2009 Part I
StockTwits Brunch Saturday March 7th, 2009 Part II
StockTwits Brunch Saturday March 7th, 2009 Part III
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Great Quips from StockTwits 03.06.09
Unlike many of the media outlets, and we won’t name names, you guys are calling it like it is and it’s proving to be good market intel. We’re getting some brilliant commentary on the feed doused with just a little sauce. Here are some that have come in from today’s morning session:
@thurgy
$VIX alternate fear indicator, lol, http://tinyurl.com/c9t2ex
@stevenplace
$$ Premarket...
StockTwits User Profile: w0nk0
hallo StockTwits, below is a profile of one of our very own:
@w0nk0
He hails from Germany, plays the electric guitar, has sworn off the media and has been tweeting his trades since before StockTwits existed. The market first piqued his interest as a result of the press coverage of the ‘87 crash and he has followed it ever since. His schooling is in Psychology and he started honing his...
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Mar 1, 2009
Here is the transcript to MacroTwits Hour with @GregorMacdonald from last Sunday night between 9:00pm - 10:00pm. Super sharp group. Thanks again all who participated.
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Mar 1, 2009 Part I
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Mar 1, 2009 Part II
[Edited for length]
Is this the bottom?
@dougkass is calling a market bottom. You can read his position here: http://bitly.com/11OIPb
What do you think?
StockTwits Brunch Transcript Sat Morn Feb 28, 2009
@tickerville was on point again Saturday morning and provided us with some technical knowledge. One thing you may want to check out was his use of ‘mystery charts’ to identify trading opps - a useful exercise. There was some great information exchanged with a lot good trading opps for the upcoming week.
The Brunch transcript has been edited and broken down into three parts which you...
February 2009
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MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Feb 22, 2009
Here is the transcript to MacroTwits Hour with @GregorMacdonald from last night between 9:00pm - 10:00pm. Thanks to everyone who particiapted!
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Feb 22, 2009 Part I
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Feb 22, 2009 Part II
[Note: this has been edited quite a bit due to size]
Feel free to comment in the comments section below.
StockTwits Brunch Transcript Feb 21, 2009
Another great Brunch session with @tickerville Saturday morning; thanks to all who participated. If you missed it, check out the transcripts below.
Again, please bear with us as these early transcript posts will be a little bit rough as we get a system down pat.
The Brunch transcript is broken down into three parts which you will find here:
StockTwits Brunch Transcript Feb 21, 2009 Part...
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Welcome the New Interns
We are psyched to bring Levi Boyd and Seth Brodie into the StockTwits fold as interns.
It appears that both of these guys are extremely overqualified and so we are most grateful to the global economic collapse otherwise both would have laughed at our offer.
Seriously though, these guys are both very sharp and already working hard behind the scenes to make StockTwits the best it can possibly be.
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The StockTwits Widget Is In Effect
You can now put a StockTwits widget on your blog and customize it to show all stocktweets, those for a specific stock or those for your stocktweets only. Its very cool.
You can get it here.
And here is one seen in the wild on 1440WallStreet.
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Feb 15, 2009
Here is the transcript to MacroTwits Hour with @GregorMacdonald from last night.
Thanks to everyone who particiapted! Reading back over it, I must tell you, it was ian incredibly informative time.
I edited it quite a bit to get it to fit in two parts. We will be making this process better over the coming weeks.
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Feb 15, 2009 Part I
MacroTwits Transcript: Sunday Feb...
StockTwits Brunch Transcript Feb 14, 2009
Over the last two weeks, we have received a ton of requests for transcripts of the StockTwits Brunch and MacroTwits programs so we’ve begun publishing them beginning with Saturday’s StockTwits brunch hosted by @tickerville.
Bare with us please as these early transcript posts will be a little bit rough as we get a system down pat.
This first transcript is broken down into two parts...
WatchRinger @KnutJensen provides a sweet video ‘how to’ for StockTwits on TweetDeck.
Thanks Knut!
On Adding Futures to StockTwits
We are going to be adding futures symbols to StockTwits and would love to hear and discuss which contracts you would like to see and how we can render symbols most efficiently.
So please let us know in the comments below!
Thanks,
@StockTwits
Getting Your Profile Picture Up On StockTwits
We’ve noticed that a significant minority of those who post to StockTwits do not have a profile picture (or avatar) up. Your profile picture looks like this…
To all of you with this pic, we would love to see your beautiful face so here is a quick ‘how to’ get your pic up so that all of those reading your stoktweets will have a face to go with your market opinion…
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StockTwits: A "How To" Guide
We are tickled to have a bunch of new followers over the past couple days and figured it would be a great time for us to provide a simple How To guide for the newbies.
So here goes…
1. Make sure you are following StockTwits on Twitter. You can do this here.
2. How To Post to StockTwits: There are two ways to get your tweets picked up by the StockTwits Stream and both involve the $ as a...
StockTwits Integrated on TweetDeck!
We are truly psyched to have the StockTwits streams integrated into the new version of TweetDeck.
So now You can follow the All, Friends, Portfolio, Commentary and Recommended streams all from your TweetDeck.
TweetDeck is the most popular Twitter client and for those of you who are active on Twitter and have not tried it, it is a must.
Louis does a great job of describing the updates here and...
Attention Currency Traders: We've Added FX to...
StockTwits has just added FX symbols to the system so that currency pairs preceded by the $ will be picked up by the StockTwits stream.
The symbols include:
$EURUSD
$USDJPY
$USDCHF
$GBPUSD
$AUDUSD
$NZDUSD
$USDCAD
$EURJPY
$GBPJPY
$AUDJPY
$EURGBP
$AUDNZD
If you would like any other symbols added to the system, please request in the comments and we will add.
The Birth of Programming on StockTwits
A couple of months ago, Quint Tatro @tickerville began showing up on StockTwits on Saturday mornings and peppered the feed with some great market commentary focused on technical analysis. The next week he showed up again and by the time he’d gotten an hour in he had sparked about a dozen conversations and was fielding questions left and right. He and I had a chance to talk that week and...
StockTwits Looking for a Few Good Tweeps
We are currently looking for 2 interns to work with us in the NYC area.
If you are whip smart, indefatigable and obsessed with both markets and social media, please send me an email at phil@stocktwits.com or tweet me @ppearlman.
WatchSoren “Slim Shady” Macbeth does a great job explaining some of the newest features on StockTwits including the sweet pop out feature.
If you are a regular user or a newbie definitely check it.
(And a special shout out to Knut without whom we would have no videos)
Boycott CNBC Day on Tuesday February 3
We are boycotting CNBC on Tuesday February 3, 2009 and ask you to join us. We are boycotting CNBC because of what we perceive as a gross lack of accountability and editorial judgment. We are boycotting CNBC because they produce shows with personalities who take zero responsibility for stock picks and markets calls which misinform viewers and distort the severity of the economic crisis. We are...
WatchHere is an update on StockTwits and some hints about where we are heading from Soren.
Howard, seriously, get some sleep.
January 2009
11 posts
StockTwits Super Bowl T-shirt Cha Cha
Simple contest kids. Guess the winner and score of Super Bowl XLIII between the Cardinals of Arizona and the Steelers of Pittsburgh and win a StockTwits t-shirt.
You can enter by tweeting @StockTwits or by entering a comment to this blog post. Voting closes at kick off.
StockTwits guesses 19-13 Cardinals.
And if we win we promise to use the shirt to cover this guy up. Oy…
StockTwits and Spam
As StockTwits continues to grow followers quickly, we are finding that our stream is getting hit with what we view as spam. We realize that thousands of people are watching our feed daily and that the benefit to organizations hitting us with links to their sites is increasing so we are confronting unsolicited promotion head on. Here is a brief synopsis on our policy towards spam. 1. We want...
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Play Guess the Open: $AAPL
Ah’ight Stocktwits, here’s the deal.
$AAPL reports after the bell today and will be the focus of attention and debate from Wall Street to Cupertino. But as you and I both know, the only thing that really matters is price…
So guess tomorrow’s opening print in the name by tweeting @StockTwits or commenting to this blog post.
Winner gets a StockTwits t-shirt or hat and...
A Few Site Updates
We pushed out some notable site updates today that you should be aware of:
1. Auto-refresh is now on by default, and it available on the ‘All’,’Portfolio’, and ‘Friends’ streams. If you want to keep the old, manual refresh style, you can go and turn off auto-fresh in your settings.
2. The ticker pages have been redesigned to better fit in with the rest of the...
StockTwits for Newbies
If you are new to StockTwits, these steps will help you get started. If anything is unclear or you have any other questions at all, please comment on this blog post and we and our community will reply in short order.
1. If you do not yet have a Twitter account, you must sign up for one to login to StockTwits. You can do that here.
2. Log in to StockTwits using your user i.d. and password from...
Great $AAPL StockTweets on the Steve Jobs News
Last night on the news that Steve Jobs was taking a leave of absence, we asked StockTwits whether this ‘on the news’ might mark a bottom in the stock. In the after hours session, $AAPL traded into the mid 70’s on heavy volume and opened this morning around 80. While its still way too early to tell, we got some great responses. Here are some faves:
wood83 $AAPL: Silence is...
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WatchA word on StockTwits etiquette from the world’s most polite individual.
WatchStockTwits at New York Tech Meetup
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WatchHi Stocktweets.
This is the official StockTwits Blog and we will be posting a ton of stuff from how to videos, super shout outs, the best responses to our surveys and queries, opinions when we are REALLY worked up and of course racy photos of Lindzon in his speedos.
First up, we hit you with this video which covers how to post to the StockTwits feed from our benevolent sponsor Howard (in street...
August 2008
1 post
Welcome
Stay tuned for new about the latest new features coming soon!