Archive for December, 2007
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Last week was the kick-off of our first official TickerHound Challenge. The answers have been submitted, reviewed and the BEST have been selected.
The winners for last week’s (click here to see the questions) TickerHound challenge are:
EthanR – Congrats Ethan!
ChaosNantuko – Amazing job, once again!
Oldman – Welcome aboard “Oldman”, I’m sure ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
I think TickerHound members are getting smarter by the day...
I had a friend (big time trader at Goldman Sachs) call me up personally this week to tell me how impressed he was with the depth of both questions and answers that were on the site.
I told him that I wish ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
For a short week in the market we certainly saw a lot of action!
The week started off on a bright note – Merrill (NYSE: MER) announced they’d be selling a lending unit to GE Capital and had raised over $6 billion from Tamasek Holdings (a government owned investment firm out ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Here it is, the first of many TickerHound Staff Challenges!
The basic premise behind the Staff Challenges is to really see if the “cream” does rise to the top in the TickerHound community. Each Friday we sit around and come up with questions that we feel will be fairly challenging and ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
It’s been a fun and wild week over here at TickerHound HQ. I could write about all of the good things we’ve been doing but I’d rather bring you back behind the curtain and talk about some of the “fires” we’ve had to put out over here this week.
For ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Well this last week in the market was just as volatile as the week before – but we did finish on a strong note and the major indexes all ended higher.
Reason being, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and RIM (Nasdaq: RIMM) – the maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry device – both issued ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Well, it's been a week since TickerHound was born - we've laughed, we've cried, we've...ok, we didn't do any of those things, we've mainly had our hands full with customer service, design changes and technology patches.
I've gotta say this has been a whole new learning experience for me. I mean, ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
It's official, TickerHound.com has gone into public beta! You can now visit us at www.tickerhound.com and begin asking your finance and investing questions today!
We thought we should give you fair warning - things are about to start getting a little crazy around here. There are going to be a lot ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Just wanted to take a quick minute and thank all of the TickerHound Alpha Testers - we've fixed some of the problems and have taken a lot of your suggestions into account. This has been an extremely valuable experience for us and we couldn't have made such a great ...
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