StockTwits Blog

What Are Your Thoughts on the CFTC and Forex Leverage Limits?

StockTwits — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:15:49 +0000

On Monday, the CFTC will issue its decision on leverage caps for the retail forex market. The decision will go a long way in determining the future of many retail forex brokers doing business in the United States. The CFTC wants to restrict leverage to 10:1 for retail transactions. This comes as financial regulatory bodies [...]

CNNMoney.com Goes Real Time on Enhanced Ticker Pages with StockTwits Widget

ppearlman — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:48:10 +0000

CNNMoney.com has launched redesigned ticker pages with a number of new and excellent features including a real time stock conversation widget powered by StockTwits. So, while researching the individual stocks users are most interested in, they can now scan what StockTwits community members are tweeting and charting as the market happens. This is very cool! We are very [...]

Signing Up for a New StockTwits Account

justin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:53:17 +0000

If you tried to log into StockTwits this morning and received an error, it’s because our new StockTwits site is live. In order to bring you a breadth of new features, our new site uses our own authentication rather than the Twitter-based authentication on the old site. This will require a StockTwits account. Below we [...]

Using Watch Lists Alongside of Tweetdeck

justin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:23:17 +0000

On Friday we announced that the Portfolio stream would no longer be available in Tweetdeck. We are currently working alongside Tweetdeck to bring our multiple watch list features to you in your Tweetdeck. In the meantime, we’ll show you how to create a Watch List on the new site and make it a pop out [...]

The NEW StockTwits is Live!

justin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:56:54 +0000

We are happy to announce that the new StockTwits website is live. A few weeks back we released the new StockTwits in beta. We have been incorporating your feedback, and adding new features such as a New Options Stream as well as Sector Streams and we are now ready to go live. So, spend this weekend [...]

Tweetdeck Update

soren — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:14:40 +0000

Beginning today, there will be changes to StockTwits access on TweetDeck. You will still be able to pull up the All, Suggested and Commentary streams, but the Friends stream may not be available and the Porfolio Stream will not be available. This is due to our move away from a Twitter based authentication process and to [...]

Introducing Equity and Futures Sector Streams

justin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:43:14 +0000

As we have mentioned earlier with the NEW Options Stream, our goal is to give our users the ability to better filter and customize StockTwits. One such tool is the new Sector Streams. Sector streams organize the various symbols that belong to a particular sector into its own dedicated stream. We have broken down both [...]

$PUT, $CALL, and the NEW Options Stream

justin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:32:41 +0000

As we continue to build and grow our focus will be on providing our users with great tools to filter and customize StockTwits for their needs. One of these tools is the new Options Stream . All options related tickers will go to this stream. Here’s a breakdown of the tickers, including two new ones [...]

The StockTwits Ecosystem at Work

justin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:34:37 +0000

The StockTwits Ecosystem is growing and becoming more powerful. Through our main sites: StockTwits, StockTwits.tv, Chart.ly, and Abnormal Returns we have been building an ecosystem of products to bring timely market information and foster collaboration and idea generation amongst investors and traders. This week, we got to see the beauty of the ecosystem revealed around [...]