Archive for April, 2009

• Side Projects Are The New 401k….Beware of Side Projects!
  Posted by Howard on April 28th, 2009 at 9:47 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  The title of this post is inspired by a comment from long-time reader of my blog Rick Stratton . The whole side project thing has [...]

• Do We Deserve A Stock Market?
  Posted by Howard on April 26th, 2009 at 10:30 pm, Comments: 2 comments

  Since January 2008, my hedge fund has treated the stock market as closed when all the momentum to the upside was destroyed. At the time, [...]

• Stocktwits Introduces Social Stock Charting with Chart.ly
  Posted by Howard on April 25th, 2009 at 11:04 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  About three weeks ago, Tim Sykes came to visit at my office and was bugging me to get a chart sharing site launched for Stocktwits [...]

• The Proper Use of Leverage…Danny MacAskill
  Posted by Howard on April 21st, 2009 at 11:08 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  Danny…not a Jew! Share on StockTwits

• Deep Market Thoughts…This Depression is Depressing
  Posted by Howard on April 20th, 2009 at 11:02 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  It’s all about ‘Ball Bearings ‘ and ‘Capital Structure ‘. If today was the beginning of a new selloff, things would make sense to me. [...]

• Stocktwits Launches a Premium Blog Network
  Posted by Howard on April 20th, 2009 at 7:18 am, Comments: 1 comment

  I don’t believe 140 characters is enough to run a financial site. Today, Stocktwits has launched a ‘Premium Blog Network’ where the favorite subjects and [...]

• Asshat Fight of The Week…Buy and Hold vs. Indexing vs. Cramer
  Posted by Howard on April 19th, 2009 at 8:04 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  Thank goodness for all the Jim Cramer haters that I got to see this ridiculous video from CNBC on Friday: Two grown men fighting and [...]

• Deep Market Thoughts…From Fear to Fear!
  Posted by Howard on April 18th, 2009 at 11:36 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  In February and March there was sickening fear. Fear that your portfolio was going to zero. This weekend there is sickening fear that the market [...]

• Knight's Bridge Capital Partners Acquires Polaroid
  Posted by Howard on April 17th, 2009 at 1:27 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  I can’t wait till my partner Kenny posts about the nightmare way the bankruptcy proceedings went because it is an amazing backstory. We are very [...]

• Happy Birthday CNBC…Big Woop…and ROn Insana YOU are NOT an Entrepreneur
  Posted by Howard on April 17th, 2009 at 7:56 am, Comments: No comments yet

  I am not watching CNBC but it still permeates my financial life. It is not easy to do anything for twenty years so congrats . [...]

• The Twitter PULLBACK is at Hand.
  Posted by Howard on April 17th, 2009 at 12:04 am, Comments: No comments yet

  I am way overinvested in Twitter. I am WAAAAY not that smart. Twitter has like 40 young nerds in charge. It needs like 500 nerds [...]

• Stocktwits IS for EVERYBODY…AND Here is How I Use It!
  Posted by Howard on April 16th, 2009 at 9:25 am, Comments: 2 comments

  I have been sitting with some big corporate partners for Stocktwits the last month and we have been with some people that get it and [...]

• How I Manage Information Flow
  Posted by Howard on April 14th, 2009 at 11:44 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  People keep asking me how I do what I do and even though I don’t think I know what I am doing, what the hell. [...]

• Final Word On Goldman Sachs…'WE WANT ANSWERS'!
  Posted by Howard on April 14th, 2009 at 10:54 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  The New York Times finally ran a story…conveniently after Goldman ‘Sweaty Ball’ Sachs had raised their $5 billion…with the dumb ass title ‘Big Profits, Big [...]

• CNBC Banned from Stocktwits
  Posted by Howard on April 14th, 2009 at 6:00 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  Seeing that I have been banned from CNBC for no reason, it seems fair that Stocktwits blocks the yutz’s for being too dumb to understand [...]