On 08.25.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Musings memories and observations, Technology, hedging, by David Pinsen
A day after cracking the top-10 on AppShopper.com’s top-200 list of highest-grossing finance apps, Portfolio Armor broke into the top-5 today:
On 08.24.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Musings memories and observations, hedging, by David Pinsen
After 24 straight days on AppShopper.com’s top-200 list of highest-grossing finance apps, Portfolio Armor cracked into the top-10 tonight, for its highest ranking yet:
On 08.23.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Economics, Investing, Musings memories and observations, hedging, by David Pinsen
Earthquake hits NYC, BAC blamed.
After a rare East Coast earthquake shook New York City Tuesday, this was one of a number of tweets I saw blaming the tremor on Bank of America (another suggested what we felt was BAC’s implosion).
Bank of America is one of the top holdings of [...]
Here comes another lesson
The market crash Monday, coming hot on the heels of the one last Thursday, made me think of the book of dark short stories pictured below (one I’ve blogged about here before), Here Comes Another Lesson. A brief excerpt should illustrate.
This excerpt is from a story called “The Professor of [...]
On 07.14.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Musings memories and observations, Technology, by David Pinsen
As a waste of time
Harry Eyres offered that view in his FT column last weekend, “My shallow affair with Twitter”. Excerpt:
Tweets are the perfect mode of (pseudo) communication for the age of narcissism.
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The fundamental thing about tweets is they are nearly always about “me”; in fact, many might as well read, “Me! Me! [...]
On 07.06.11, In Economics, History, Musings memories and observations, Politics, U.S. economy, by David Pinsen
The Financial Times published this letter of mine today:
From Mr David Pinsen.
Sir, Larry Pierson (Letters, June 30) argues against the use of government spending as a form of economic stimulus, noting that Barack Obama’s fiscal stimulus failed to stem the rise in unemployment.
He then broadens his argument against fiscal stimulus by stating that only the [...]
On 07.01.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Culture, Musings memories and observations, Short positions, hedging, by David Pinsen
Portfolio Armor update
I met with the finance Ph.D. who devised Portfolio Armor’s algorithm yesterday to discuss some potential expansions of the algorithm. More to come on that. If you have any feature requests, feel free to mention them in the comments.
June was another record month for paid downloads of the Portfolio Armor iOS app, [...]
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