...Weisenthal and Kaminska are both very smart, but that doesn’t mean I’d be likely to give them my money to invest on my behalf.
A large part of investing is knowing when to wait, in a world which is always biased towards action. Another large part is being able to step back and see the big trends, without spending too much time being distracted by noise....(sensing a rainmaking opportunity) "Felix, ...Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name, but what's puzzling you is the nature of my game..."
“…For, after all, I had been into cocoa a bit myself. That was back when The Great Winfield had discovered cocoa trading. Occasionally in those more leisured days I would sit with him lazily watching stocks move, like two sheriffs in a rowboat watching catfish in the Tennessee River….”Okay, the above para was actually "Adam Smith" preceded by Jagger/Richards but the whole "Must investors be on Twitter?" is a keeper as is Izabella's Tumblr post on information storage/retrieval.
For the record we have 1400 feeds on various readers and terminals that combines with some fancy news analytics software to make a glorious mess at the exact nano-second you need it to work.
HT on Salmon@Reuters: FT Alphaville's The Closer post.
