The Best Market Sources for 2012

Each morning I follow roughly the same routine as I get up to speed with the overnight events in Asia/Europe and prepare for the day ahead:

  1. Pull up quotes/charts
  2. Check my StockTwits/Twitter streams for the latest news, charts & opinions
  3. Read The Reformed Broker’s & AbnormalReturn’s morning link fests – Josh and Tadas must read an insane amount of blogs in order to select the most interesting and timely ones for their link fests each day.
  4. Read any other interesting blog posts from the StockTwits Network  - Of course i’m a bit biased here, but I often find myself being absolutely in awe at the depth and diversity of the goodness on StockTwits (and i’m not just talking about the blogs).
  5. Finally, I check out ForexLive, WSJ, Reuters, BusinessInsider, Bloomberg, FT, and read various other articles/research which associates have sent me.
The following sources have been particularly invaluable in tweeting breaking news and helping to digest & filter the firehose of information that permeates cyberspace (in no particular order):

@TheStalwart – Joe crushes it every day, Twitter feels empty when he takes a day off (this week…..).

@LorcanRK – Lorcan is one of the best sources out there for anything involving Europe and the eurozone.

@SimoneFoxman – Simone has been all over the eurozone news lately and has developed a very high level understanding of the dynamics of the situation, most importantly she has a keen sense for what could move markets.

@jeliasof – Eliasof specializes in forex and almost always has the latest econ data/breaking news from around the globe.

@FGoria – Fabrizio has been all over the eurozone debt crisis, moreover, he is based in Italy’s financial center Milan which gives him a unique perspective into the evolution of the crisis.

@M_McDonough – Michael regularly tweets on interesting economic topics, particularly China. He also has put together some of the most unique and thought provoking charts I have seen in the twittersphere.

@MatinaStevis – Matina is probably my longest “eurozone crisis follow” due to her expertise on Greece. She is now a journalist for Dow Jones/WSJ and continues to tweet and write thought provoking eurozone related news and information.

A great way to develop a follow list is to check out the “suggested list” on StockTwits and follow people whose tweets you find to be useful. I can recall starting with around 20 follows in June of 2010, somehow I have expanded that list to over 400! One final prediction for 2012: There will be an increased emphasis (even more than already exists) on culling the most timely and value added information from the firehose that is financial market social media – Curation curation curation!

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