Howard Lindzon » MyTrade.com

Mytrade – Mobile Stock Quotes and Automatic Watch List Updates Via Twitter

Howard — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:57:00 +0000

Andy, Landon and I have been talking about integrating stock tools into Twitter for a year. My first post on the subject was last May .

Today, MyTrade.com announced their mobile stock quotes and automatic watch list updates via Twitter . It’s a perfect start.

For me, lightweight just wins the day. I want to check in on my positions three times a day without hassle and I want it pushed to me in a clean way. Done.

Fred likes it as welll and he’s not a trader .

Andy, Landon and the MyTrade tream have many more lightweight features coming that we have been brainstroming the past year. Sign up, stay tunes and share your ideas with me or at the MyTrade twitter page .

Disclosure – I was an investor in MyTrade (purchased by Investools).

MyTrade.com…You Can Make Money from Blogging…Part DEUX!

Howard — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:30:23 +0000

My good friends Andy and Landon Swan have taken MyTrade.com through the ‘exit door’ as Fred Wilson likes to say. Investools (NASD – SWIM ) is the buyer . They made Wallstrip look long-term with a 4 month funding to exit.

I could not be happier… and not just because I was an angel investor with Roger , my fund and other friends. It validates what we all work so hard to do in the financial blogging community…learn, share ideas, share information, make money or in some cases lose less.

First of all, the new site and tools rock!. Here is a helpful video . Investools is providing the capital and resources to get all of Andy, Landon and even some of my financial community ideas to market. I am loving the sharing features and integration with ThinkorSwim online brokerage services (a division of Investools), but I am not going to go through all the features in this post. Too many. I will start posting on them throughout the week as will Andy on his blog.

When Wallstrip was just an idea in my head, I was flying around meeting financial bloggers out east. My first stop was Atlanta to meet TraderMike . My second stop was Kentucky to meet Andy and Landon. It was August 2006 and here is what I wrote . Landon is 6″10 and when I first met him he had a black eye. I asked him if the other guy was dead! Instant friends and bodyguards. We played 18 holes and I pitched them on Wallstrip while they pitched me on MyTrade. They backed me all the way and I backed them.

Once again, all the connections were from blogging .

Of course they made a ‘How We Started Video’, with some great cameos. Check out the return of the wonderful Lindsay Campbell (more ‘STRIP’, less WALL in this one).

Wallstrip Gets Julie all Hot and Panicked!

Howard — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:42:22 +0000

You can’t blame me for working in a scene like this into Wallstrip:

You are welcome :) .

Nice job Julie.

Oh and Andy…What gives on the MyTrade announcement mentioned by Julie, cool design and new features. Investors always the last to know as usual.