The Rise of Social Trading
The nature of our platform cuts out the noise and provides only the most important signals -- when a trader buys or sells through their real online trading account.
The nature of our platform cuts out the noise and provides only the most important signals -- when a trader buys or sells through their real online trading account.
Reuters | Posted 05.03.2012
* Bank CEOs express concerns about Dodd-Frank rules * Fed's Tarullo listens but does not respond at meeting * Stress tes...
The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.01.2012
Financial markets went back into crisis mode in April. Bonds, relatively safe-haven investments, were the only global asset class to enjoy positive...
Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.30.2012
Serious people are seriously contemplate giving Wall Street traders particle accelerators expressly for the purpose of high-speed trading.
AP | BERNARD CONDON | Posted 04.30.2012
NEW YORK — It's simple to understand, and has a nice ring to it. It's made some investors look like geniuses recently. Say it enough and you mig...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.02.2012
Wall Street seems to have learned a neat trick: how to make more money while producing less. Between 1980 and 2010, the U.S. financial industry nea...
The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.29.2012
Where is John Connor when you need him? We might need some help handling some robots. At about 10 a.m. on the East Coast, just after the Federal Re...
D.M. Levine | Posted 02.23.2012
Regulators are taking a hard look at the Wall Street practice known as flash-trading. According to the Wall Street Journal, the chairman of The Securi...
Peter Gardett | Posted 02.16.2012
The energy sector has been agitating for change for years as it seeks to rebuild and grow. Its challenge in 2012 may be to navigate that change as it stems from an unexpected source.
Lisa Gilbert | Posted 01.30.2012
The fact that a little-known loophole permits members of Congress and their staffs to buy and sell stocks using insider information they might obtain through their official work rightly strikes most citizens as outrageous.
HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 12.10.2011
Powerful computers scan dozens of markets and order millions of stock prices every second. These computers, situated in banks, hedge funds and trading...
The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.22.2011
One of the toughest responses to the financial crisis is in danger of being weakened. The Volcker rule, named after former Federal Reserve Chairma...
Posted 11.15.2011
Swiss bank UBS said a rogue trader had lost it $2 billion in unauthorized dealing, and police in London arrested a man in connection with the case...
Irene Aldridge | Posted 10.22.2011
Many high-profile long-term investors have publicly expressed their frustration with the tactics of some high frequency traders (HFTs). While much of...
AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 07.26.2011
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former NASDAQ manager pleaded guilty Thursday to stock fraud after admitting that he made more than $600,000 on insider trad...
Jeff Madrick | Posted 07.17.2011
Nothing surprises me more than when I read that trading on insider information is a victimless crime. In the wake of the conviction of hedge-fund giant Raj Rajaratnam, the claim has come up time and again. In fact, it is entirely untrue.
Posted 07.12.2011
WASHINGTON -- Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson said Thursday that heavy Wall Street trading has driven up the price of oil well beyond the l...
Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011
It's an utter mistake to think America is this big helpless giant with respect to its trade problems. The solutions are out there if we would but avail ourselves of them.
The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011
Just as the housing market was tanking in 2007, Goldman Sachs tried to shove out investors who were betting against it, to secure the best price for i...
Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011
The REAL lesson most investors should take away from the largest institutional insider-trading investigation in history is that competition in the global financial markets is so intense that it's basically idiotic to trade.
Lawrence G. McDonald | Posted 05.25.2011
It's right out there in front of us like an Iceberg on the horizon. I'm seeing more and more hedge funds and asset management firms focused on Washin...
Zack Isaacs | Posted 05.25.2011
Contrary to popular assumption, the term "business ethics" should not be considered an oxymoron. However, there are two stories from the news this wee...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The pace of U.S. home foreclosures may not slow much after all. Bank of America said Monday that it plans to resume seizing more t...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Friday it will delay a scheduled report on whether China is manipulating its currency to gain tr...
Dan Solin | Posted 05.25.2011
Cramer outlines a recommended trading strategy, but doesn't tell investors how to implement this strategy. The movement of stock prices is random, often driven by tomorrow's news, which no one knows.
Michael Giles | Posted 05.08.2012