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More Useful Tools
Following on from a previous post about useful tools for investors we continue to be approached about new offerings asking us to promote them to our community. We have no association with any of these organizations but thought we might highlight a few more to follow up on directly if you are interested: Useful tools ... read more
Smarter Investing Covestor on 6 Oct 2008
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Scheduled Maintenance
The Covestor site will be down this evening for scheduled site maintenance from 2.30-5.30am EST. Email us if you have any urgent requests in this period. Apologies in advance for the inconvenience
Covestor News Covestor on 30 Sep 2008
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Publishing Your Posts on TheStreet.com
Following on from our previous post about our partnership with TheStreet.com, today we put live the functionality to allow you to have your posts featured on their site. This should be a great way to build your following on Covestor, and your profile as a commentator across the web. TheStreet.com is looking for tickerized commentary ... read more
Covestor News Covestor on 23 Sep 2008
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Following the Financial Crisis
Covestor is great place to follow the meltdown in the US financial system this week as a number of Members are posting their views on what has been happening and where they think this is likely to go. To find out what great self investors are doing with their own money right now either check ... read more
Covestor News Covestor on 17 Sep 2008
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Follow Member Commentary on Twitter
Following on from our recent post about sharing your trades on Twitter, you can now also keep track of all member commentary by following Covestors' own feed on Twitter! The feed contains the commentary that members are posting to the site, highlighting the member name, the associated stock (if there is one) and the title ... read more
Covestor News Covestor on 11 Sep 2008
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Feature Updates: Misc
A few updates to existing functionality have gone live today that you will notice across the site. A couple of the key ones to highlight for you: Member Search You can now search for members by user name as well as by browsing or using the keyword search. Select the type of search you want ... read more
Covestor News Covestor on 9 Sep 2008
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Weekly Member Interview: Patrick Jo Smith
This weeks interview is with Covestor member and rising star Patrick Jo Smith. Patrick has a background in finance, now working as a venture capitalist in Colorado, and spends ten to fifteen hours a week actively managing his portfolio. Patrick has a dual investing approach, about half of his investments based on fundamentals and the ... read more
Covestor News Covestor on 28 Aug 2008
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Data Team Post: Updated Alpha and Beta
We have updated the Alpha and Beta calculations today so thought we would take the opportunity to explain more about these measures and how we calculate them. One of our members had spotted a technical bug in the calculation, which you can find displayed on each members fact sheet. Simply described Alpha and Beta are ... read more
Covestor News Covestor on 22 Aug 2008
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Weekly Member Interview: Paul Casimir
After a short break, the interview series with The Wall Street Transcript is back. This week's interview is with Covestor member Paul Casimir, aka Yaktipper. Paul is an Internet programmer living in Wisconsin, who also blogs his investment activity on his own site Yakblog. Paul picked up his passion for investing from his grandmother and ... read more
Covestor News Covestor on 19 Aug 2008
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Twitter Your Trades
A new feature went live on Covestor this morning, allowing you to send live trade notifications directly to your Twitter feed. When you execute a trade with your broker you can now keep your followers on Twitter up to date, per the other members following you on Covestor. To use this feature go to your ... read more
Covestor News Covestor on 12 Aug 2008
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