StockTwits TV – Interview with Roger Ehrenberg @infoarbitrage

Two posts about this damn Roger Ehrenberg in just two weeks!

While boring to 99.9 percent of you, Roger and I have shit to talk about. Two good looking 44 year old men should be heard on subjects like managing $6 billion, ‘Too Big To Succeed’, Worst and Bet Trades, and John Paulson. Please chime in on who is better looking. Roger can take it.

Overheard on StockTwits: 3G’s $GS, $GOOG, Greece

Chatter about Greece bailout rumors, a stronger dollar and $GOOG dominated the StockTwits stream this morning.  Here’s a taste: (Read the rest of this entry)

StockTwits TV: Interview with Barry Ritholtz

I sat down with Barry Ritholtz recently to chat about “Too Big To Fail”, interviewing with no socks, and his market data product Fusion IQ.

I have a horrible habit of interrupting people when they talk and when Barry is with me, I regress further, but we had fun and Barry is never boring.

StockTwits TV – Interview with John Borthwick of betaworks

Recently, I sat down with John Borthwick , co founder of Betaworks (wicked cool real-time companies). John and his partner Andy Weissman build things, buy things and they invest in things….bitly and chartbeat , Summize (Twitter $twit search).

We chat about all of the above, managing a fast growing business, chaos, disruption, the early web and of course porn.

Israel Loves Forex

It has been a long, fun week here is Israel. I am looking forward to getting home, but will also miss Israel. It has been almost 25 years since I last visited, but I think Israel will be a yearly visit now.

The web and telco has helped shrink our world infinitely, but this week I was reminded of the importance of expanding my comfort zone.

Ben Weiss of the Greylock Israel team invited me to meet a ton of companies involved in Israeli Fintech.

The themes I see are Forex and Binary Options. I am bullish on both industries but not sure how I will directly participate. I will though.

I would not expect to see Israeli financial web companies tackle the US markets and I am glad they could really care less about stocks in general.

I am sick of trading babies on Etrade (better than the actual E-Trade investors likely) and the endless battle for discount retail accounts in North America.

I doubt Forex traders as a whole have any better results than stock traders, but currencies and futures are a growth business.

With growth will come innovation and profits for good investors.

StockTwits TV: Interview with James D Robinson @jdrive

I sat down with James D. Robinson of RRE Ventures (@jdrive on Twitter).  Through RRE, he has made investments in companies such as Adaptive Blue (Glue), betaworks, and drop.io, to name a few.  It was great to chat with him about investing strategy and process as well as some of the areas where he sees disruption occurring in the future.

Overheard on StockTwits: Collective Befuddlement

After the last few week’s selloff, we’ve started this week with a rally.  This has left traders stuck between two opposing questions: Was the selloff for real or is the rally going to continue?  Here’s what the StockTwits stream is talking about today:

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StockTwits TV: Interview with Chris Dixon of Hunch

Yesterday, I sat down with entrepreneur and early-stage investor, Chris Dixon.  We chatted about his background, the current VC landscape, and his latest venture, Hunch.