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WMH    0.96

TXX    0.96

ZOC    0.96

XAH    0.95

RYT    0.95

Stocks with positive correlation with RIMM over the past 100 trading days

WMH    0.98

RWJ    0.97

RZG    0.97

VLA    0.97

STM    0.97

Stocks with positive correlation with RIMM over the past 30 trading days

TGJ    0.97

SLX    0.96

VGT    0.95

SLF    0.95

TXX    0.95

Stocks with positive correlation with RIMM over the past 10 trading days

TDW    0.96

YZC    0.94

RTM    0.92

TEC    0.92

WTWO    0.91

Stocks with negative correlation with RIMM over the past 200 trading days

RYAPX   -0.87

RYAIX   -0.87

SOPIX   -0.87

RYAAX   -0.87

SOPSX   -0.87

Stocks with negative correlation with RIMM over the past 100 trading days

BE    -0.97

HMX    -0.97

HWWI    -0.95

RISAX    -0.95

RISSX    -0.95

Stocks with negative correlation with RIMM over the past 30 trading days

TYP    -0.97

SDK    -0.95

SFK    -0.95

SKK    -0.95

SMN    -0.94

Stocks with negative correlation with RIMM over the past 10 trading days

LBUV    -0.97

USFME    -0.92

SZJSF    -0.91

SGDBF    -0.90

SIDG    -0.88

Stocks with positive correlation with GOOG over the past 200 trading days

DJUSNS-X    1.00

IIX–X    0.96

QTEC    0.95

PNQI    0.95

HHH    0.95

Stocks with positive correlation with GOOG over the past 100 trading days

DJUSNS-X    1.00

LLNW    0.96

RIG    0.96

WRC    0.95

AXE    0.95

Stocks with positive correlation with GOOG over the past 30 trading days

DJUSNS-X    1.00

FRB    0.98

NIE    0.97

RAP    0.97

HXL    0.97

Stocks with positive correlation with GOOG over the past 10 trading days

DJUSNS-X    1.00

MHYRX    0.99

MHYIX    0.99

MMLP    0.99

NQGM    0.99

Stocks with negative correlation with GOOG over the past 200 trading days

PSQ   -0.88

VXV   -0.87

SHY   -0.87

QID   -0.84

PTD   -0.83

Stocks with negative correlation with GOOG over the past 100 trading days

PSQ    -0.94

QID    -0.94

REW    -0.92

MSCFX    -0.92

TKRFF    -0.92

Stocks with negative correlation with GOOG over the past 30 trading days

SKK    -0.97

QID    -0.95

RWM    -0.95

PSQ    -0.95

SDDFF    -0.95

Stocks with negative correlation with GOOG over the past 10 trading days

BBMF    -0.99

VHPXX    -0.99

LGCXX    -0.99

LGDXX    -0.99

LGBXX    -0.99

Score card for tech leaders:

Google – Crush
Apple – Crush
IBM – Crush
Microsoft – Crushed (ooops)

Timothy Sykes turned $12,000 into $2 million in four years, lost 1/3 of it, starred in the hit TV show Wall Street Warriors and is now committed to teaching everyone, finance freaks and normal people alike, to profit from the world’s trashiest stocks, penny stocks through his publishing company BullShip Press, LLC (seriously).

This is part of the stock market that is filled with hype, manipulation and corruption and once you learn how to identify all the players and the games they play, which surprisingly isn’t very difficult, you can make some serious money with little risk. The key is learning discipline and not getting too cocky from all the money you make! (seriously) This ain’t no get-rich-scheme, it’s the first brutally honest blog, book (An American Hedge Fund), instructional DVD (PennyStocking) and subscription service (TIM ALERTS) focused on teaching the risks AND rewards of stock trading, broken down to the basics and integrated with a blog so our customers can interact and ask any questions whatsoever.

Totally open. No more financial BS. No more sketchy schemes. No more overpriced crap.

This is stock trading, specifically penny stock trading (ideal for people with just a few thousand dollars) going mainstream. No joke, Timothy has learned from the boiler rooms themselves to give out big commissions to salespeople – except that these products are quality, not fraudulent! Think of the BullShip Press brand as a financial Girls Gone Wild, instead of profiting from young trashy girls, investors, traders, non-finance people and affiliates alike will profit from low priced trashy stocks! Read some blog posts (any blog posts) to see that this is all real and it’s gonna get everyone loving this greatly unloved and misunderstood financial sector.

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For instance, this is what you would see if you visited the correlation page for my favorite ETF – SRS:

Stocks with positive correlation with SRS over the past 200 trading days

Stocks with positive correlation with SRS over the past 100 trading days

SKF    0.92

RFN    0.87

TWM    0.86

TLL    0.83

TASFF    0.79

Stocks with positive correlation with SRS over the past 30 trading days

SCC    0.98

EEV    0.97

SKF    0.97

SJH    0.96

RSW    0.96

Stocks with positive correlation with SRS over the past 10 trading days

Install our Firefox extension and magically turn StockTwits tagged tickers on twitter.com into links back to stocktwits.com so you can easily catch up with the latest conversations.

I do enjoy watching the stream of data from StockTwits, as it demangles and organizes all the free flowing thoughts on the markets as culled from Twitter.

The future of the economy in the US, as well as the rest of the world, is dependent on the outcome of the vote on the economic rescue plan – let’s even call it a stabilization bill. I have been using newsflashr to track the latest stories related to the markets and the legislative action. I especially like the stock market blog feeds and the unique presentation of that stories:

Headlines Sorted by Time

Real-time updating headlines by topic

Individual blog feeds sorted by Alexa

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Only Inner8 brings together high-performing investors and provides them with advanced analytic tools to deliver the next generation of investment advice.

The social stock picking field is interesting from one perspective, but I have never really gotten into it on a regular basis. The concept is – individual investors are independent gauges and guessers of the markets and stocks. Bring these masses together and leverage the wisdom of crowds to better determine good places to invest your monies. Oddly enough, this is what the Stock Market does.

Okay, that is a broad brush of the social aspect of Inner8 – let’s get a little specific. I am still not clear on the name – Inner8 – but I think that is the name of the most trusted advisers that you follow in the stock picking community – your inner circle of stock pickers. Is it limited to eight? I don’t see anything that says one way or the other.

All the stuff – charts, data, social connectivity – feels great. Everything has the modern Web 2.0 feel – required for social stock picking I think. I am still playing with it, but I don’t see anything that is a major difference. Yes, there are improvements on basic concepts, but nothing earth shattering. However, that is what is so great about a free market – new products get developed and either outlive their competition, are gobbled up by their competition or disappear – perhaps leaving their competition with some neat new ideas.

Inner8 is free – as they say: “Zip. Zero. Nada. Your membership is absolutely free.” I don’t have any invites to hand out to people, but if I get any I will be sure to let everyone know. You can apply for a beta membership, but I don’t know how long it will take before they get back to you.

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Stock Cloud is an interesting data mining or data visualization experiment – they describe it as a

tag cloud like display of stock ticker symbols. The larger the ticker symbol the more frequent that company distributes press releases.

Wikinancial allows you to backtest stock picking and trading strategies.

iMiners tracks press releases – as does Stock Cloud – but it provides a search interface and then breaks the press releases into categories.

Wall Street Pop is another Digg-esque stock market site. I am afraid that the stock market is much too diverse to analyze or to get alerts from an interface like Digg’s interface. It is an obvious application of the Digg paradigm to the financial markets, but I don’t think it works.

Because their stock symbol is BOO – what could be more appropriate? How about:

WTCH is the symbol for Wastech, Inc., a penny stock that looks very scary.

The werewolf is a Halloween mainstay, so the Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. symbol WOLF is on the list.

Dunking for AAPLs – Apple Computer, Inc.

I will leave you with TRK or TRT (Speedway Motorsports, Inc. and Trio-Tech International) – that is, if anyone is still reading!

WallStrip does Harley-Davidson, Inc. (HOG).

I am finding WallStrip to be an important part of my day – it still ain’t WallStreetWeek with Louis, but fun.

Google – 3rd quarter -> $2.62 vs $2.42 expected and revenue saw an increase of 13%

GOOG is up in the $440-$450 range in after hours trading.