Q&A With 5 Traders on Twitter
Name: Frank
Twitter Alias: stockguy22
Blog: work in progress
Followers: 1,499
Currently retired, Frank (stockguy22) trades full-time from home. A self taught trader, Frank learned trading through books, courses and his own learning experiences over the years.
He first started trading in 1985, and bought and held Microsoft (MSFT) for $1,000. It ended up netting him $138,000. In his words, this was when "buy and hold actually worked, unlike the past 7 years".
Frank is very active on Twitter and doesn't mind helping other traders out.
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Q&A with Frank (stockguy22):
Q: How do you use Twitter each day for trading?
A: I find it very helpful in terms of receiving real-time advice and giving real-time advice
to other traders.
Traders can even post charts and links in real-time to help each other out.
I post my buys/sells to help some of the new traders out. I also post my profits and losses.
Recently, my biggest profit was on Dendreon (DNDN), which earned me over $117K on an overnight trade.
I actually found the DNDN trade posted by someone on Twitter. Then, during the day, I saw unusual volume on no news, which made me think that something was happening with DNDN.
The next day they had the cancer news that made it go up over 200%+ so for me Twitter is a priceless resource.
Q: What Twitter widgets, applications, tools and services do you like using?
A: I currently use TweetDeck and also the web version of Stocktwits. I have the "my portfolio" tab running in the background on Stocktwits along with other people that I'm following. On my iPhone I use Tweetie and Twitterrific.
Q: If you could name a few, whom would you recommend our readers follow on Twitter?
A: Appleinvestor, alphatrends, upsidetrader and AndySwan would be the top 4 people whom I've found to be helpful on Stocktwits.com and Twitter.com and that have good helpful posts each day.
I like to follow people who post charts and recommendations that I can check. Not someone that just posts profits and never posted an entry for that position.
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