I went to an event yesterday that featured a number of people active in the hedge fund industry and the financial markets. Here is the series of twitters I sent during that event.

  Headed to the semi annual meeting of a hedge fund of funds. Expect to get some insights and will twitter them

  Observation: great hedge fund managers have come out of goldman, tiger, and michael price's firm

  Has the financial system crisis run its course? Most likely yes if banks and the fed keep doing... [Read More]

Twitter bots are a lot like IM bots. You send them a message and they send you one back. Except, of course, you can do that through twitter, on any "device" (Facebook, SMS, web, third party client, etc) you want.

My favorite twitter bot so far is the mytrade stock quote bot that launched late last week.

Here's how do do it (you need to be a registered twitter user to do this):

First, go to mytrade's twitter page and follow them.

Then, wait a minute or two for mytrade to follow you back (no... [Read More]

On Monday, I bought some more GOOG (and some more AAPL). I explained my rationale for both trades in this twitter post. I went into even more detail on the Google purchase in this covestor post.

I was busy yesterday and not paying attention to techmeme, the stock market, or my portfolio (always a bad idea), and saw this twitter post by Christopher Finke.

          Being glad that I didn't buy GOOG like @fredwilson did.  Down 36 points so far today.

Down 36 day one, ugh. Typical trade for me.... [Read More]

I’ve been an investor in a company called Alacra for almost 10 years, via the Flatiron Partners portfolio. Alacra has a database of premium financial content that includes equity and credit research, merger and acquisition data, market research, and a host of other content. The Alacra database includes data from hundreds of premium content partners.

The Alacra data is sold mostly to large corporations via subscription deals but in recent years Alacra has built a nice business selling the same... [Read More]