{"id":10508,"date":"2009-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"twittering-their-way-to-smarter-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/twittering-their-way-to-smarter-trades.html","title":{"rendered":"Twittering their way to smarter trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ReportonBusiness.com &#8211; When Tom Liston needs insight on one of India&#8217;s largest companies, he doesn&#8217;t pick up the phone to call a long-cultivated, top secret source &ndash; he logs on to Twitter to check up on a stranger who broadcasts messages semi-anonymously from the other side of the world.<\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;This guy trolls all the websites and reads things about Satyam [Computer Services Inc.] that would take me five days to go through. He finds summaries and posts them on Twitter,&rdquo; says Mr. Liston, the Toronto-based director of research at Versant Partners.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeinvestor.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090503.wgttwitter04\/GIStory\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReportonBusiness.com &#8211; When Tom Liston needs insight on one of India&#8217;s largest companies, he doesn&#8217;t pick up the phone to call a long-cultivated, top secret source &ndash; he logs on to Twitter to check up on a stranger who broadcasts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11223,11227,1170,11230,11222,11225,11229,11224,11228,11226],"class_list":["post-10508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-computer-services-inc","tag-director-of-research","tag-india","tag-insight","tag-satyam-computer-services","tag-secret-source","tag-stranger","tag-tom-liston","tag-trolls","tag-versant-partners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}