Moderated by Michael Hainsworth — host of BNN's Market Call.
So your portfolio dropped in value by 40% and you fired your financial advisor.
Now what? Well, apparently you should tweet about it, and then publish your whole
investment portfolio online for everyone to see (and talk about).
A growing number of Canadians are sharing intimate details about their investments
using social media tools. In return for this candor, they become defacto members
of an online community that functions like a personal financial advisory board.
The conversation is lively and the applications seem endless: swap strategies in
forums, become Facebook friends with other traders, update your holdings on a portfolio
sharing site, follow every buy and sell tweet by an analyst or day-trader, take
online trading courses and webinars, and subscribe to RSS feeds from a few increasingly
influential bloggers. The ways people are using social media to take charge of their
investments is increasingly creative. Is this what financial literacy looks like?
Moderated by Michael Hainsworth, the host of Market Call on Business News Network,
I invest therefore I tweet invites some of most trusted (and influential)
names in financial social media to talk about the tools they’re using, what works
and what doesn’t, what and who to watch out for, and whether it
is
possible to successfully combine trading and twittering.
Michael Hainsworth
In addition to hosting some of BNN’s top rated programs, viewers may also recognize
Michael Hainsworth for his work distilling the day’s financial news on local CTV
newscasts across the country and for CTV Newsnet. Hainsworth made the transition
into television after 11 years in radio; six of those were spent as news anchor
and business reporter for Canada’s largest radio station, 680 News in Toronto. When
not reporting the day’s financial news, Hainsworth can be found devouring the latest
technology stories; he is a self confessed “computer geek.” Follow Michael at
http://twitter.com/marketcall.
Jonathan Chevereau
Jonathan Chevreau joined the National Post in 1993 and has been the personal finance
columnist since 1996. He has authored or coauthored eight financial books, including
the
Smart Funds Guides and
The Wealthy Boomer. He also writes
the
Wealthy Boomer column in FP Weekend and blogs at
wealthyboomer.ca. On Mondays, his Well Advised column anchors
the Advisor Post page. Prior to the Post, Chevreau was a technology reporter at
The Globe and Mail, a freelance writer and a publicist. Follow Jonathan at
http://twitter.com/JonChevreau.
FrugalTrader, MillionDollarJourney
One of the most respected personal finance bloggers in Canada, FrugalTrader gets
250-300,000 hits every month on
milliondollarjourney.com and has over 5500 subscribers. Readers ask everything
from simple RRSP questions to more advanced questions about leveraged investing.
Sometimes readers even email their complete financial history for an opinion. "Of
course, I always indicate that I'm not a financial advisor." Follow FrugalTrader
on twitter at
http://twitter.com/FrugalTrader
Sam Seiden
Sam brings over 15 years experience of equities, forex, options and futures trading
which began when he was on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where he
facilitated institutional orderflow. He has traded equities, futures, interest rate
markets, forex, options, and commodities for his personal interests for years and
has educated hundreds of traders and investors through seminars and daily advisory
services both domestically and internationally. Sam has been involved in the markets
since 1991 both on and off the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He has
served as the Director of Technical Research for two trading firms and regularly
contributes articles to industry publications. Sam is known for his trading, technical
research, and educational guidance. His articles, training videos, and newsletters
are available online.