Browsing Category: "Stock Tools"
I’m probably one of the last investors to still be using a CRT monitor. I’ve seen some traders set up with 3 or more LCD monitors at their workstations. My old 21 inch CRT is finally starting to show it’s age. It is flickering a bit now and adding to my eye strain. In addition, [...]
Yesterday, Wikia announced the acquisition of ValueWiki. I was actually involved in adding content to Valuewiki when it first came out back in 2006. I was real excited to hear that founders, Jonathan Stokes and Zach Greenberger, were bought out. It gives me hope for my own little social media project, Value Investing News.
ValueWiki is [...]
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I’ve been check out Wall Street Survivor this past week. Wall Street Survivor is a free fantasy stock market game where you get to trade real stocks in real time using a fictional $100,000 account. Basically you can use the site as a “paper portfolio” to practice trading stocks. I [...]
The fastest growing form of communication on the web right now has to be Twitter. I’ve been using the service for about a year now, but I’ve only started seeing value investors using Twitter within the past few weeks. Value investors are a cautious group when it comes to technology adoption, so now that I see them trickling [...]
Looking for a new broker for the new year? Firstrade, the official broker of Fat Pitch Financials, might have the deal for you. They are currently running a triple sign-up bonus. Here’s what they are offering:
100 Free Trades with funding of $2,000 or more
$100 Transfer Rebate with funding of $25,000 or more
$100 Cash Back with [...]
I am always curious as to what my fellow value investors are doing. A new tool by Google (GOOG) called Insights for Search has given me a new way to find out more about value investors by looking at who is searching for “value investing” related topics. Google Insights for Search has data going back to 2004 on [...]
I had the privilege today to participate in the first ever SEC conference call for bloggers. The topic of today’s call was interactive data using the XBRL standard. XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language, and it is basically a way to make financial statements machine readable using tags. This meeting was held today in part to prep the [...]
Thank you SEC! It’s not often that I feel compelled to thank a federal regulator, especially around tax time, but I am really excited by a new feature of the SEC EDGAR database. This weekend I spotted orange XML feed images all over EDGAR, like the one in the screenshot below of the company page for Western Sizzlin [...]
Joe Ponzio’s F Wall Street Blog just announced a great new feature. You can now generate company specific RSS feeds for SEC filings. All you need to do is look up a company’s CIK Number by doing an EDGAR search and then enter it in Joe’s SEC filings generator. Here’s a feed I just created for Western [...]
This week Amazon (AMZN) announced its entry into the ebook reader market. Their product is called the Kindle. It is described as a wireless reading device. It uses a revolutionary electronic-paper display by E Ink that is suppose to look and read like real paper.
If you are a value investor, I am sure you spend many hours [...]
