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Dec 8, 2008 Fun Stuff, Small Cap Stock Picks
This is my post over over at the new TwitAroo.com BLog
My name is Cameron Fous and I’m a young entrepreneur/stock trader/bartender(temporary leave). I’m the CEO and portfolio manager over at my first fous 2.0 project TheTechnicalTrader.net which i started early in college. It grew into a very popular and successful stock trading blog, place of discussion, and education. I ran the site for free for 2 years in college with much success and gracious reviews. In April 2008 i started charging $50/month for my stock picks and brought in over $30,000 in subscriptions to my site in the first month. At age 23 i was pretty excited about the success and wondered why the hell i ran this site for 2 years for free? Beets me… guess it was a confidence issue.
Well now its December 2008 and we are in the worst financial crisis since the great depression. Many say this is worse than great depression. So as you can imagine this is just about the worst time to be in the financial industry. The volatility in the current market has created a very high risk trading environment not suitable for a reliable means of income. Banks are collapsing, financial suicides from the stress, people losing jobs left and right, the money isn’t rolling in like it used too. It will come back around, its just a matter of when. So i’ve dubbed this slowdown in the market not as a catastrophe, but as an blessing. A time to broaden my horizon. A time to use my intelligence to further my success in the long run and get involved in other things in the stock market. A time…. A time to ummmm…. what else is this a time to do? Well besides be frustrated and pissed off at the stock market. It is a time to start up TwitAroo.com
Twitter has been a growing by leaps and bounds and have noticed a variety of other websites and applications based off of its user database that have brought in a lot of popularity. Stocktwits.com which Howard lindzon (founder of wallstrip.com) became of investor in has become a popular website and social forum for stock traders based off of the twitter network. From this idea i’ve developed Twitaroo.com. Which is a social forum for not just stocks, but for all topics of popular discussion in the world such as tech, web 2.0, politics etc. Why just stop at stocks I thought? Essentially you would be able to browse twitter with different channels and join the discussion. So Twitaroo.com is currently under development and will be launched in early 2009. Hope to have a beta release in January. Looking forward to it and i will see you all there.
Visit my new blog at twitaroo.com/blog regularly for updates
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