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Tradestreaming Cascade: The News You Need To Know (Week Of October 23, 2011)

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Every week, I send out an email (free) to my subscribers summarizing the must-see events of the past week. It’s everything about the intersection of technology, social media and investing.

Sign up in the sidebar, at the end of this post, or by going here.

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Online banking keeps customers on hook for fees (NYT)
October 16, 2011

Big banks are struggling and their taking it out on their customers.  How long will the currently banked continue to put up with this?  BankSimple +1.

Social Media, Technology and Investing

The optimal software free trial strategy (SSRN)
Posted October 4, 2011

Lots of new investment startups and newsletters employ a free trial strategy to increase paid conversions.  Do you go full features for X days or limited features forever?  Here’s the optimal strategy.

The fear index based on social media sentiment looks bullish (MarketPsych)

Research firm MarketPsych has been profiled on Tradestreaming (go here).  Looking at a variety of investor sentiment from thousands of sources, MarketPsych thinks the current market looks bullish.

New app is awesome showcase of stock market data and visualizations (Xignite)
Posted October 14, 2011

StockTouch is a new iOS app that uses a market heat map-type display of breaking stock market movements.  New visualizations like StockTouch promise investors a new way to look at market data/info to aid decision making.

Investment Strategies and Research

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Breaking out of short-term investing to build greater value – with Al Rappaport

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Investors seem to be more focused on the short term than ever.

You can credit hedge funds and institutional investors having to report performance on a monthly basis. CNBC’s 24/7 coverage of financial news doesn’t help, either.book by Alfred Rappaport

However we got here, many analysts are calling for a return to longer term frameworks for investing — for investors and managers that run the companies they invest in.

Finance professor, Al Rappaport has been analyzing shareholder value since his first paper on the subject in 1965.

His new book, Saving Capitalism from Short Termism: How to Build Long-Term Value and Take Back Our Financial Future is a clarion call to break out of our current myopia and find a way to focus on long term value.

Rappaport joins us on Tradestreaming Radio today.

Listen to the FULL episode

About Alfred Rappaport

shareholder valueAl is a professor emeritus at the Kellogg School of Management where he taught for many years.  He’s the author of numerous other books and papers, many with a focus on maximizing shareholder value.

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Tradestreaming users like new format of my newsletter (do you?)

If you haven’t noticed recent changes (or are not yet subscribed) to my weekly newsletter (Sundays), it appears that some recent tweaks to the format are being well received by the rest of us.

The point of my weekly email is to help you quickly get a feel for all the cutting edge news and analysis impacting today’s serious investor.

I’ve begun adding more links/news and categories including:

  • investment products
  • social media, technology and investing
  • investment strategies and research
  • the financial advisory business
  • investor behavior

You can see an example here and subscribe here.

By the way, I didn’t just randomly pick the new categories above — I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how investors learn to become better and how this information breaks down into categorization.

The changes have resulted in a slightly higher open rate (how many people are opening my weekly message) and and almost double the numbers of clicks on links. I take that as a good thing.

 

Are you reading my weekly Tradestreaming newsletter? What do you think — do you like the changes?

What would you like to see more of from me?  Let me know in the comments below.

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Tradestreaming Cascade: The news you need to know (week of October 2, 2011)

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Every week, I send out an email (free) to my subscribers summarizing the must-see events of the past week. It’s everything about the intersection of technology, social media and investing.

Sign up in the sidebar, at the end of this post, or by going here.

You’ll get your 1st issue on Sunday.

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A better solution to socially responsible investing (Larry Swedroe)
A recent study shows that there is a price to pay for socially responsible investing: namely, raising the cost of capital for sin stocks.  That said, Swedroe recommends avoiding SRI and donating the difference in returns to an investor’s favorite charity.

New jobs package should open up crowdfunding (Amy Cortese/NYT)
A friend of Tradestreaming, Amy Cortese penned a New York Times editorial describing some of the changes tabled in the Obama administration’s new jobs package.  This one — with rare bipartisan support — may change the way small businesses raise capital and how investors can tap these new sources of returns.

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The Path: From Novice Investor to Master – with Adrienne Toghraie

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Join Adrienne Toghraie, master trading coach, and me on Tradestreaming to discuss the psychology of trading as she shares practical, actionable tips to better investor performance.

In this special edition of Tradestreaming, we discuss:

  • finding and staying in your zone
  • 4 steps for bettering use of trading time
  • how to discover your ideal strategy
  • 10 rules to be more professional in your practice
  • how to learn and make mistakes well
  • much more!

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Better retirement planning and investing – with Mike Egan

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Mike Egan has heard numerous investment myths bandied about for decades.mike egan

In his new book, Your Stronger Financial Future: The Essential 8 Strategies for Making Profitable Investments sets out to correct those misunderstandings.

In our interview, Egan addresses:

  • social security and how it should fit into a retirement plan
  • how unprepared most of us are for retirement
  • the role of financial professionals in the investing process
  • why debt makes success harder

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Jackass investing appears to work

I interviewed Brandywine’s Mike Dever recently on Tradestreaming Radio on the launch of his book, Jackass Investing (Amazon).

Dever’s done an admirable job making his strategies available to the public (and his returns, too).  The August report on the Symphony Portfolio (described in Jackass) showed a return of over 2% vs. the $SPY ‘s loss of over 5%.

Pretty non-jackass to me.

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Investing in troubled times – with Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith called the housing/debt bubble in 2005 when he started blogging on his site, Of Two Minds.

It helps to be right and since then, he’s grown his readership to 300k monthly visitors and published one of the best selling kindle books on Amazon in the investment category. Smith joins us today as a guest on Tradestreaming Radio.an investment book by Charles Hugh Smith

Please join us to discuss his new book, An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times.

We’ll hear from Smith about what he sees to be the underlying problems in our economy, how it will play out, and how he suggests investors position themselves for the future. (Hint: disruptive technology and hard assets both play a key role)

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