Thanks to Kathy Yakal and Theresa W. Carey for the kind words about my site in this weekend’s Digital Investor column at Barron’s. (subscription required) When I started this blog about 18 months ago I would have never imagined being mentioned in Barron’s. Hopefully they won’t mind if I ‘liberate’ the section of the article about my site (I’ve added some links):
Blog On
“Despite all the noise and random content in blogs, many bloggers have become sources for breaking news, fresh ideas, and expert commentary,” according to a recent Morgan Stanley report, “An Update From the Digital World — October 2004.”
And so we continue to scour the Web for the best blogs. This week, we looked at TraderMike (www.tradermike.net). The proprietor, Michael Seneadza — he describes himself principally as a short-term (or “swing”) trader who also uses longer-term trends to help him time his moves — calls his blog a trading diary of sorts. His background is not in finance but information services, which he abandoned for a new vocation as a full-time trader in 1999.
Mike posts a detailed description of his trading philosophy, as well as many educational entries, covering elements like moving averages. It’s an intelligent, informative, well-written blog that combines his and a few other bloggers’ comments on market moves with pertinent content from sources like Forbes, Trader Wizard, Yahoo! Finance, and RealMoney.com. Charts illustrate Mike’s points, and a watchlist chronicles his possible trades. Recent entries covered the debate over whether Google is a bargain or screaming short now, and the seven habits of ineffective traders. A good set of links takes you to recent comments and most visited posts, other blogs, and investment Websites. And TraderMike posts a disclaimer that echoes our advice about any respectable blog: Posts should not be construed as recommendations; they are for informational purposes only, or: Take the good ideas, but continue to do your own homework.
For other market related weblogs visit the ‘Stocks/Finance’ folder of my newsreader or see David Jackson’s ‘The Finance Blog Resource Page‘.
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Congratulations Mike. It’s a nice write up. And you have good blog too. Nice to see someone else, in a big magazine no less, notice it.
Hopefully you’ll get some extra readers from it. Of course then you have to pay for the extra bandwith.
Wow! Congratulations, Mike! I keep an eye on your writing and haven’t commented before, but this merits commenting for sure.
I’d be curious to hear about any bump in traffic you see here as a result…
Congratulations on the Barron’s feature, I check your views out whenever I can. I like the new layout – keep up the good work!
Best wishes,
Declan
Mike! Lots of Congrats! You deserve it!
Thanks guys. You can always see my traffic by clicking on my SiteMeter (where the number of visitors is displayed at the bottom of the page). Maybe I’ll post a chart of my traffic now and then again in a couple of weeks to see how it changes…
Congratulations! You have a lot of good stuff on this blog.
I find that I go to blogs more and more for information. I just get a better sense of a topic from a good blogs. It’s kind of like Golilocks and the 3 Bears. News sites offer too much “noise” because they have to report the latest thing. Commercial sites don’t have enough useful content nor do they give enough context. Blogs filter the content and make it useful — they’re “just right.”
Thanks Anita.
That’s a great way to describe (good) blogs.
Congrats Mike on the Barron’s mention. It is very well deserved.
It would now be interesting to juxtapose your traffic volume and S&P volume (or maybe pink sheets?).
I am also glad my scribblings didn’t turns Barron’s away. Congrats! Next stop…?
Duru,
The next stop would be for you to upgrade that 20th century site of yours and start blogging! Then quit your job and start trading full time.
And thank you again for filling in for me during my vacation last month.
I congratulated you personally but I also want to congratulate you publicly. Great job, Mike!!
Congratulations Mike! When I grow up, I want to be big time like you.