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• With Facebook, Greece & A 100 Point SP500 Correction, Less Is More
  Posted by ppearlman on May 17th, 2012 at 2:27 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  When the markets are going nuts and participants are frenzied and confused, I want to take the other side of the trade. Emotions are running [...]

• LEAKED: Zuck’s Face on the Facebook Stock Certificate?
  Posted by ppearlman on May 16th, 2012 at 4:23 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  lol… via Mad Magazine ht Leslie Fishlock

• Jon Steinberg and the Smart Bull Case for Facebook
  Posted by ppearlman on May 16th, 2012 at 9:51 am, Comments: No comments yet

  Sure, Buzzfeed’s Jon Steinberg is invested in the social web so it is no surprise that he leans bullish Facebook. But he’s also smart and understands [...]

• Don’t Hang Around Too Long in the Facebook Proxy Trades
  Posted by ppearlman on May 15th, 2012 at 11:20 am, Comments: 1 comment

  One more point regarding these Facebook proxy trades that are ripping yesterday and today as the $FB IPO date nears. Today, $RENN, $YELP & $P [...]

• Facebook Proxies Rip on a Down Day Portending Strength for the IPO
  Posted by ppearlman on May 15th, 2012 at 7:26 am, Comments: No comments yet

  Yesterday, my pal Kid Dyamite lamented that he might get the shares of Facebook that he put in for with his broker. His worry is [...]

• The End of Systemic Mismanagement at Yahoo!?
  Posted by ppearlman on May 14th, 2012 at 9:33 am, Comments: No comments yet

  $YHOO has been mismanaged from the top down since Tim Koogle‘s bar mitzvah. Despite this, it has somehow retained a huge slice of internet traffic and [...]

• The JP Morgan Story Is Bigger than Apple
  Posted by ppearlman on May 11th, 2012 at 7:26 am, Comments: 1 comment

  The social momentum around the JP Morgan story is unprecedented in the short time since we launched the StockTwits Social Heatmap 3 weeks ago. Here’s [...]

• 6 Year Old’s Unassisted Triple Play
  Posted by ppearlman on May 10th, 2012 at 2:19 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  This is just awesome and my favorite Youtube video of the year so far. The presence to make this play by a 6yo. Ridiculous!  

• The False Truths of Social Finance
  Posted by ppearlman on May 8th, 2012 at 12:52 pm, Comments: 5 comments

  I’m loving where the social web is and headed in the finance vertical. Last weekend, I was in New Orleans at the Options Industry Conference [...]

• Heading to New Orleans To Speak at the Options Industry Conference
  Posted by ppearlman on May 4th, 2012 at 11:09 am, Comments: No comments yet

  I’m heading down to New Orleans to speak at the 30th Annual Options Industry Conference. I will be on a panel Saturday morning at 10AM entitled The [...]