TradeStream Your Way to Profits -- Contents -- Foreword-Investing in the Internet Age: In Search of Jack -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- Why You Need This Book -- Investor Performance? Ha! -- Few Exceptions to the Rule -- What's a Brother to Do? -- Copying: Investment Flattery Done Profitably -- Strategy Stubbornness -- Investing in the Age of Social Media -- Social Media for Investment Research -- Facebook versus Twitter -- Why Me as Your Guide? -- What This Book Won't Do -- What This Book Will Do -- Getting Started -- It's Time to Tradestream Your Portfolio -- CHAPTER 1 Ride the Long Tail-Financial Blogging: The World's Largest (Free) Investment Research Organization -- The Long Tail of the Financial Internet -- Where We've Come From -- The Demise of Traditional Research -- Online Finance's 800-Pound Gorilla -- The Blogger's Rise and the End of the Megabuck Website -- Why These Highly Paid Analysts Write Blogs -- What's Different Now? -- Why This Trend Is So Important -- Broad Coverage -- Deep Analysis -- Global Trading Creates New Demands -- Finance 2.0: Real-Time Research Platform -- Research via Microblogging: Twitter and Social Media -- Investment Discovery -- Deep Stock Research -- Bloggers as New Form of Investment Analyst -- The Move Beyond the Website -- CHAPTER 2 Piggyback the Pros-Following Top Money Managers' Every Move Pays Off -- The Pilgrimage to Omaha -- Do Hedge Funds Really Outperform? -- How Hedge Funds Win -- Hedge Funds as State-of-the-Art Research Machines -- High-Frequency Trading -- Big Gains from Small Companies -- Net Worth Hurdle -- SEC Requirements -- Piggybacking the Pros Works -- Two Objections to Piggybacking -- Broad and Deep Implications -- Tracking Gurus Is a Breakthrough -- Step-by-Step Piggyback Portfolio Building -- Individual Portfolio Clone -- AlphaClone -- What Top Investors Are Doing.

Using AlphaClone -- Clone Strategy -- AlphaClone-Powered Portfolios -- CHAPTER 3 Commune with the Experts-Follow Your Neighbor: He May Turn Out to be the Next Warren Buffett -- Not Your Father's Stock-Picking Communities -- Types of Expert Communities -- Why Investors Are Turning to Experts -- Where to Find Experts -- Expert Communities for Investors -- Gerson Lehrman: Connecting Hedge Funds with Industry Experts -- How GLG Is Growing -- What Clients Are Asking Experts -- Expertise for the Rest of Us -- Aggregation Technologies -- Social Networking and Blogging -- Moving toward Managing Real Investor Money -- kaChing Rocks On -- Covestor Plays above the Rim -- Inner Workings of Expert Platforms -- Open Membership -- Ranking Expertise -- Transparency: The Human Algorithm -- Covestor Expert Profile -- EPIC's Business -- Three Ways to Grow a Registered Investment Advisory -- Tradestreaming His Way to Expert Status -- Future of the Financial Advice Industry -- Differences between Crowdsourcing and Expert Communities -- Next Stop: Investment Management -- Other Sources of Expert Investment Advice to Mimic -- Join the (Expensive) Club -- SumZero: Definitely Not Zero Sum -- Hedge Fund Collaboration of Ideas -- Growth in the Industry -- CHAPTER 4 Crowdsource Your Portfolio-Tapping the Wisdom of Crowds for Investment Ideas -- Guru Dinner Experiment: Crowdsourcing Investment Ideas -- The Results -- Free but Not So Useful -- Research with an Ear to the Ground -- Crowdsourcing: An Overview -- Netflix Prize -- Crowdsourcing and the Wisdom of Crowds -- By the People, for the People -- Large-Enough Population -- Anonymous Voting -- Equal Weighting of Votes -- Aggregation System -- Avoiding Redundancy -- Crowdsourcing Investments -- Does It Work? -- Wikinvest: Enabling Crowdsourced Investments -- Wikinvest's Wiki -- Everyone Is a Chartist.

Piqqem: A Better Way for Investors to Pick 'Em -- Two Levels of Functionality -- Piqqem's Five Flavors of Sentiment -- Schroy's Capital Market Wiki -- CHAPTER 5 Screening 2.0-Bringing the Best Investors' Strategies Back to Life via Computer Simulation -- Screening 2.0: Re-Creating Guru Strategies Online -- Most Investors Stink -- Going to the Source -- First Steps -- Extending Reese's Guru Strategies -- Screening 2.0 -- Piggybacking versus Screening 2.0 -- Why Use Screens? -- A Brief History of Stock Screening -- Screening 1.0 -- Couple of Honorable Mentions -- Simulating History's Best Investors via Computer -- Single-Strategy Screens -- Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula -- Ken Fisher and Super Stocks -- Peter Lynch Outdoes Wall Street -- Under the Validea Hood -- Strategy -- Gurus -- Technique -- Results -- Stock Picking and Portfolio Development -- Why Screening 2.0 Is So Important -- CHAPTER 6 Tracking Inside Moves-Pursue Corporate Executives in Their Search for Wealth -- The Not-So-Legal Kind -- The Problem with (Illegal) Insider Trading -- Differentiating Inside Information -- Insiders Do Invest -- A Different Type of Expert -- Why Be in Business in the First Place? -- The Profit Motive -- Insiders Trade Profitably -- Investor Reaction to Inside Moves -- Whom Should We Follow? -- Muzea Behavioral Model -- Seyhun Information Model -- Follow the Smart Money -- How Are Insiders Basing Their Decisions? -- Tracking Insiders: The Strategy -- Tracking Inside Moves: A Checklist -- Pros and Cons of the SEC Database -- Yahoo! Finance -- Determining What Insiders Are Doing from Their Filings -- Where to Turn for Insider Trading Information -- CNBC's Ownership Tab -- Insider Food for Thought -- CHAPTER 7 Grind the Rumor Mill-Sorting Truths from Falsehoods and Profiting from News Flow -- Buy the Rumor and Sell the News -- Whisper Numbers.

Rumors and Hearsay Are Important . . . Sort Of -- Rumors: A Model -- Rumor Model -- Rumors and How They Affect Trading -- Rumors and Preannouncement Trading -- Trade the Preannouncement Rumors -- Antitakeover Rumor Strategy -- Trading Whisper-Number Volatility -- Crowdsourcing Rumors in Real Time -- The Fly on the Wall -- Briefing.com: Adding in Analysis to Rumor Flow -- Message Boards -- Bulls and Bears-at the Same Time -- CHAPTER 8 Co-Lateral Research-Find the Investment Value in Nonfinancial Information on the Internet -- There's Value Outside of Traditional Research -- The Internet and Transparency -- Trade Data -- Trade Associations -- Search Volume and Stocks -- Google Domestic Search Trends -- Prediction Markets Predict the Future -- Intrade: Real Money and Real Investment Potential -- Crowdsourcing Your Portfolio versus Co-Lateral Research -- Seeking Alpha's Secret Weapon -- Summary The Future of Finance-Online Brokerage App Stores and New Global Markets -- DIY Investing -- Online Brokerage App Stores -- Investment Field Riddled with Platforms -- Online Brokerages as Investment Platform -- Ameritrade's Premier Partners Platform -- The Future of the Online Broker -- New Markets -- Trafficking in Humanity -- Forex -- Content Providers as Asset Managers -- Return of Active Asset Management -- RIAs -- Video and More Video -- Personal Finance -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index.