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Twitter Your Trades

By Katy Marquardt

Posted: August 14, 2008

Now you can keep your friends up-to-date on your every investing move. Covestor, an online social network for the investing crowd, added a new feature this week that allows investors to send live trade notifications directly to their Twitter feed. The alerts appear automatically when you execute a trade with your online broker. Here's a look at how it works.

If companies are paying attention to customer complaints on Twitter, how long will it be before market makers, the OTHER (competing) side of your trades, are paying attention to investor strategies. WHO is pushing this idea?

of @ Aug 14, 2008 12:59:27 PM

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Katy Marquardt, a senior editor at U.S.News & World Report, takes a contemporary look at happenings in the financial world and aims to help young investors get going with their portfolios--or just sound cool at cocktail parties. Have a question? E-mail Katy at newmoney@usnews.com

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