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Re: Stocktwits - IDEAS…Not Promises

born2code — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:28:19 -0000

he has a point, i think what is needed now is a ranking system for ST so that the cream rises to the top. 80,000 ideas do me no good. 80,000 tweets filtered into top 5 ideas has lots of value.
i am working on something that can integrate with ST and kinnda help in this area, but i got sidetracked with family related issues and spending the summer overseas dealing with personal stuff... but i am itching to resolve things and get to programming on it.

Re: Good Morning Stocktwits TV

born2code — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:23:02 -0000

figured it out. You need to be logged on to StockTwits on the site to see the video box. Since i use it mostly from TweekDeck i was not logged on and did not see anything.
also i could not play back the content, i presume that's because it is "live TV" but maybe it just my browser acting up. would be nice to be able to view it later in the day if we cannot make it to the broadcast.
i very much like where you are going with this by the way and still hope Ratigan would end up in this mix.
kudos as always.

Re: Good Morning Stocktwits TV

born2code — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:04:04 -0000

this has to be your best kept secret yet. What site are you talking about? there is nothing at stocktwitstv.com, no links from your blog, and no links from the stock twits site... i am on the road so i may have missed the tweets with the links, but you of all people shouldn't make it so hard for us to find it.

Re: An ‘Inconceivable’ Rally…..

born2code — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:03:03 -0000

do not fight the tape... trailing stops on the way up, and when it pukes and rolls over, trailing stops on the way down.

Re: Do We Deserve A Stock Market?

born2code — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:10:37 -0000

i do see the glass all full :) i see the market for what it is, a medium for speculation, and I use it for that purpose, very much so.
i do not want to hijack howard's blog for discussion, but I did (and do) trade in an overseas market and I have studied the history of Chile. In particular the black history of the Chicago Boys in aiding and abetting the Junta against the Chilean people... Neither my familiarities with the overseas markets, nor my familiarity with South America's history changes my view point that the stock market is for speculation not for investing...
When my young children get a little older I will be teaching them to invest in themselves, in their education and to start up small businesses like me, and to speculate in the stock markets as I do :) your mileage may vary.

Re: Do We Deserve A Stock Market?

born2code — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:55:22 -0000

that's not true. The stock market in this country was never about either of those things. It was created by speculators for speculators. Issues like we face today have been around since the beginning. The term "Mutual Fund" was created solely to lure people back into the market after worse scandals 80 years ago.
The SEC was also founded to give spooked people confidence to get back into the markets. The first head of the SEC was one of the biggest speculators at the time, and the father of JFK.
The whole notion that you just buy and hold anything, a stock, a house, a bond, anything, and that it will always go up in price over the long term is the biggest form of gambling in this country.
Investors build Companies. In IPOs investors sell to speculators. From there on, it is all speculation.

Re: Stocktwits Introduces Social Stock Charting with Chart.ly

born2code — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:45:35 -0000

i got thinking and i have another idea for an offering to compliment ST and chart.ly. I am buried with client work but I am going to brew extra pots of coffee over the next couple of weeks and try to put together a prototype. i think you will like it.

Re: Stocktwits Introduces Social Stock Charting with Chart.ly

born2code — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:07:36 -0000

Kudos to Tim and for you to buying into the idea. I think this will be perfect for Brian as he is the master of looking at a chart from multiple time frames. He can integrate it with the ST premium subscription and have an immediate view from all the time frames for every stock he follows.
probably should write a small desktop app to upload several images for a single ticket to Chart.ly so it is not too laborious for him. and/or add the feature to chart.ly where a user can save the settings of different charts and when you enter the symbol it will retrieve all the charts from a third party (like bigcharts or yahoo or google) so you will have all the time frames available in one click.

Re: Deep Market Thoughts…This Depression is Depressing

born2code — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:43:07 -0000

don't fight the tape Howard... that's what trailing stops are for, so that we do not have to ponder whether this rally is for real or for shit.

Re: The Birth of Stocktwits and the Slow Death of CNBC…

born2code — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:48:45 -0000

i stopped watching after Dylan left. I did not realize how stressful it was to have them on in the background while working. I turned to Bloomberg instead and was shocked at the level of civility and in depth interviews. It is shocking to me that CNBC is still in business when Bloomberg is so much superior.

Re: Bit.ly Spelled backwards is ‘DEVIL’

born2code — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:21:21 -0000

What people are missing are the link to search engines. If bit.ly garners enough following it will be a great fit for Google (or the next Google) as a method for ranking searches that can out perform any of the algorithms of today's search engines.
imagine instead of using the reference count to rank URLs, you are using the usage (clicks) count to rank them.
Instantly re-invent the search engine.

Re: Foreign Tickers on Stocktwits…NOW!

born2code — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:33:37 -0000

howard, i'd send you an email but you take forever to reply.
Dylan walked off CNBC... This is the time to create the new WallStrip. Dylan with four real traders, fast money format, web-only live broadcast to go up against Fast Money in their time slot...
combine that with stocktwits, couple more things here and there, and you have next generation replacement for the cnbc crap.

Re: Hug a Pilot and Smack a Banker

born2code — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:22:30 -0000

i have a solution for those bonuses (sorry for the link whoring but it is NSFW so i do not want to paste the text here): http://tinyurl.com/cqx28q

Re: All I Need is a Gun and a Working ATM Card…Is That Too Much to Ask?

born2code — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:21:51 -0000

you know that by moving cash you are breaking the finance laws enacted by Bush. If you move over $5000 you are put on "terrorist watch lists" and if you move money in less than $5k increments then you are committing the felony of structuring, regardless of what the money is used for...

Re: When Blue Chips Become Cow Chips and The FAILURE of ‘Too Big Too Fail’

born2code — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:53:19 -0000

all time highs?... DEE, DTO... i realize they are inverse... but a trend is a trend... and these are monthly tracking, not the daily one, so do not have the issues of SRS, SKF and the like.

Re: Amazon…Thing of Beauty

born2code — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:21:54 -0000

I mentioned a year ago that I think so highly of their different SOA and cloud computing initiatives. They are still innovating and expanding their offerings, way ahead of everybody else.
I think they will continue to lead for a long time.

Re: Uglychart #1597: ProLogis (PLD)

born2code — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:35:25 -0000

GGP

Re: Crank up the Leverage…QQQQQQQQQQQ (But We Go To Eleven!)

born2code — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:24:22 -0000

The leverage has little to do with it. These products (double and triple alike) are designed to track the daily changes. Thus they have very little correlation with the index they "track" over any period longer than days.
if somebody is holding these for weeks/months then they are not doing their homework and they have a lot bigger problems than leverage.

On the other hand if you are day-trading or swing trading then the leverage of the instrument does not matter either. It is just a chart like any other and as long you size your position correctly then the rest does not matter.
I occasionally day trade setups with 4-1 leverage, trading $100k worth of stocks in a given trade without risking more than $300 per trade. It all depends on your setup, your stop loss, position size and risk management. I could care less if i am trading 1 shares of BRK.A or 2000 shares of QLD as long as my setup and stop allow me to risk my defined X number of dollars.

Re: Don’t Lie to Yourself…Protect Your Capital

born2code — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:57:12 -0000

you Run???

Re: Adios Free Markets…Mixed Feelings Today, But Tomorrow I will HATE IT!

born2code — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:41:06 -0000

yes, i was replying to Bill who said that in S. Korea they make better cars... i was agreeing with your initial comment.

Re: Adios Free Markets…Mixed Feelings Today, But Tomorrow I will HATE IT!

born2code — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:32:00 -0000

and they have much faster broadband and much better cell phones and are investing in science and have better health care...
probably should be comparing Amerika to North. Korea instead... that's a closer comparison.

Re: Do Soldiers Care about the Price of Oil?

born2code — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:47:14 -0000

i did not trust them fully to succeed in their plan for hyperbolic oil prices... they screwed up everything else after all... but seems they did manage to put oil on the path to infinity while putting the dollar on the opposite path...
i still managed to ride some of their coattails, hence i have the time to comment here :)

Re: Do Soldiers Care about the Price of Oil?

born2code — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:15:19 -0000

"What a clusterfuck, when you think back to how the war got started and where oil was supposed to be today."
Oil is exactly where it was hoped/planned to be when the war got started...

Re: Sykes’ Saturday Seven: April 19th, 2008 Edition

born2code — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:21:33 -0000

i track every trade, actual $$, not hypothetical R's or %s. i also have my portfolio tracked in real-time via google finance quotes, showing changes in real time (20 minute delayed) as the prices change during the day.

Re: Sykes’ Saturday Seven: April 19th, 2008 Edition

born2code — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:21:33 -0000