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Ep. 221: Howard Lindzon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Howard Lindzon
Howard Lindzon

My guest today is Howard Lindzon, a Canadian entrepreneur, author, financial analyst, technical analyst and angel investor. Lindzon manages a hedge fund, serves as managing partner of the holding company Social Leverage, limited partner at Knight’s Bridge Capital Partners, and is the co-founder of StockTwits. He’s also known for the satirical podcast Wallstrip.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • The commonalities between the angel investing world and trend following
  • Over-diversification
  • Diversification in private investments vs. stocks
  • How Lindzon got the entrepreneurial “bug”
  • Lindzon’s early career as a stockbroker
  • The beginnings of Wallstrip
  • Lindzon’s comedy influence
  • How Wallstrip led to the next four years of Lindzon’s investments
  • How Lindzon’s mistakes helped him grow as an investor
  • Lindzon’s experience with fraud committed by a business partner
  • Keeping your business drama-free
  • The issue of distraction
  • Lindzon on the birth of StockTwits
  • The investment that changed Lindzon’s financial life in 2005
  • The future of StockTwits as Lindzon sees it
  • Social leverage
  • The art of curation and verticalization
  • Thinking of the financial web as a social bank account

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What is StockTwits: It it of Use or Just a Bunch of Twits?

Howard Lindzon has said some very nice things about my books. Now that the disclaimer is out of the way: what in the world is the purpose of StockTwits?

Stocktwits Best Traders

For example, from their ‘about us’ page:

“Log into the site with your Twitter details or download the StockTwits Desktop and you will be joining a community where market participants share their very best ideas in a continuous real time and open conversation.”

And:

“The beauty is the simplicity. Messages are short and allow a person to read several interesting bits of stock information from various sources at a glance. The lightweight approach highlights the power of delivering vertical value to a horizontal community, where both constituencies share a common passion: the desire to consume and share real-time information.”

And:

“In essence, StockTwits® helps people interested in markets socialize ideas. Whether you are a short term trader, swing trader or investor, whether you prefer stocks, Forex, options or futures, whether you want to eavesdrop or participate, you will find a wealth of information streaming at your fingertips.”

Sure, everyone has a view, but not everyone has a view that you should pay attention to. In fact, if trading as a trend follower ALL of these views are worthless.

Let me blunt: I know who the best traders on the planet are and NONE of them do any of this. Agree or flame me because I am 100% dead on telling the truth. This is financial news and information taken to its useless extreme by the Free Stocktwits.

Note: I am an equal opportunity ripper of news whatever. CNBC doesn’t escape my sword.


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