Stocktwits 2010

It is amazing to have witnessed the growth in trading/investing ideas and links being passed around tagged with $ and $$.

Welcome to a fresh start to 2010. For money managers, the slate is clean. We can go back to underperforming the monkeys and indexes (I did in 2009).

In the money business, dwelling will kill you. ‘I dwell therefore I fall behind’ (Howard Lindzon, 2010).

You MUST focus on opportunities. Managing the opportunities is of course the holy grail, but from my perspective, the more you see, the better off you are. That is of course the reason for Stocktwits. Twitter has proven that real-time matters and Stocktwits is proving it further within a niche. I think the true power of Twitter and Stocktwits is you get more the more you put in. Microblogging has definitely sped up the size of active idea generators/contributors. Stocktwits is simple to learn. You can become proficient in the first day.

I believe that realtime search with realtime filters is the genius of 2010. Customers want not only the most recent information but the most relevant and authoritative as well. Twitter Lists are one of the new ways speeding up the filtering and discovery process and we have built some wide and deep Stocktwits suggested lists for the markets .

We have a lot of cool stuff slated for release in January, including some major feature updates to the Stocktwits website and Chart.ly and even some new products. The blackberry app is almost complete as well.

This weekend we launched a second daily email called ‘Technical Knockout’. You can sign up for it here . We are crowdsourcing the best and most liked community technical investing/trading ideas and will deliver them to your morning inbox.

We have been listening to the amazing ideas coming in to help make Stocktwits better. Please keep them coming.