January 31, 2007
The True Pecking Order of Stock Market Blogs
Barry wrote a post about the Top Twenty Finance Blogs according to something called “Valuewiki.” I thought it would be useful to adjust that list based on the age of the blog (authors, please correct me if I got a date wrong):
- Maoxian | First Post: September 23, 2001
- The Big Picture (Barry Ritholtz) | First Post: September 18, 2002
- Trader Mike | First Post: April 2nd, 2003
- Footnoted | First Post: August 18, 2003
- The Kirk Report | First Post: September 3, 2003
- Fat Pitch Financials | First Post: August 12th, 2004
- Random Roger’s Big Picture | First Post: September 29, 2004
- Bill Cara | First Post: December 22, 2004
- Jeff Matthews | First Post: January 11, 2005
- Crossing Wall Street | First Post: July 11, 2005
- InvestorGeeks | First Post: October 30, 2005
- Ticker Sense | First Post: November 9, 2005
- Gannon On Investing | First Post: December 24, 2005
- Howard Lindzon | First Post: December 29th, 2005
- 24/7 Wall St. | First Post: March 7, 2006
- Stock Market Beat | First Post: March 8, 2006
- Herb Greenberg’s Market Blog | First Post: June 18, 2006
I threw out Seeking Alpha (David Jackson’s serf-driven content aggregator), Blogging Stocks (a Calcanis Corporation “blog” ?), and Ant & Sons (copy and paste ?) — none of which are blogs as I define them.
Cat: | Time: 10:52 am (utc+8)
January 31st, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I am a newbie for sure. I have read you and trader mike the longest.
Herb is a blog chmpion considering he went to thestreet.com back in the day so he may deserve higher bidding here.
January 31st, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Nice leave out of seeking alflafa and the crappiest of crap stock sites flogging stocks.
January 31st, 2007 at 1:58 pm
howard: You’ve skillfully ridden WallStrip’s (Lindsay’s?) coattails to greatness in record time. ;-)
Yes, I agree on the Herbie front but it took him so long to come over to blogging (he was even stuck behind a super-premium wall at TSCM for awhile) and this makes me think he’s either a little slow-in-the-head or chickenshit (just kidding, Herbie).
January 31st, 2007 at 10:27 pm
FYI - My first incarnation at nodoodahs.blogspot.com was in Nov 2005. Still doesn’t help me crack the top ten.
Tho’ DJ doesn’t want to admit it, SA is just a tarted up aggregator. The comments section is useful for driving traffic, however, FAR more useful than actually being published there ever was. Barrons and WSJ summaries being “original content?” I don’t think so.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Hey, if I move the date of my first post forward by 2 I’ll move up a spot! Of course, that would be creative accounting, which we all abhor…
January 31st, 2007 at 10:47 pm
[…] But Maoxian reordered the list to the top 20 by tenure. […]
January 31st, 2007 at 10:50 pm
The is a new player on the scene
www.fptradingdesk.com
February 1st, 2007 at 4:44 am
I’ve always said you were the true BlogFather.
February 1st, 2007 at 4:51 am
Nice list, Maoxian.
Jon
Co-Founder
“something called ValueWiki…” ;)
February 1st, 2007 at 5:30 am
How is it useful to rearrange the list based on age? I could understand if you misinterpreted the word “useful” to mean “self-aggrandizing”.
February 1st, 2007 at 6:01 am
Jon said:
“Nice list, Maoxian.”
The Chairman loves lists.`
February 1st, 2007 at 9:17 am
I did some early pre-blogging right after 9/11 (see this)
But Geocities was way too kludgy. I played with radioland and early versions of blogger, but didn’t settle into a groove until I found Typepad — I started The Big Picture there in July 2003.
But I ran into a problem when I started referencing earlier “print-only” writings. I tried to archive these back a year or so, but it just became too laborious — I gave up going back as far as September 2002.
February 1st, 2007 at 9:35 am
thank you for the mention.
the notion of a timeline is fascinating
February 1st, 2007 at 10:24 am
D. Tuft: I think blogs that are associated with big papers don’t usually work, but I applaud their too little too late effort.
Mike: Yes, and a man that doesn’t spend time with his (original blogosphere) family can never be a real man.
Jon: Didn’t mean to disparage old ValueWiki, it’s just that I couldn’t reach the site from China so had no way to check out your list on my own.
Funnyman: How about usefully self-aggrandizing? Seriously though, it’s useful to know where these pipsqueak upstarts stand compared with the original titans.
Todd: You’re a long-time reader obviously.
Barry: I’m still not going to make you #1. ;-) I got the maoxian domain name in 2000 and lost a year and a half of stuff when I switched hosts from Earthlink to Yahoo! but I didn’t care since it was mainly useless junk (unlike the useful junk I post now).
Roger: Nice to see another relatively early bird … we old men need to stick together!
February 1st, 2007 at 3:20 pm
SeekingAlpha, other than its BARRONs/WSJ summaries, is quite original in its content. You’ll find opinions there you simply WILL NOT find elsewhere…Plus, the fact that you have real buy siders and serious investors writing makes it all the more credible.
disclosure: I contribute occassionally to SA.
February 1st, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Kelley: It still ain’t a blog.
February 1st, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Maox — I’m nowhere near the earliest — I didnt start regular blogging until July 2003.
Todd Harrison of Minyanville was probably the first true market/trading blogger in the early days of TheStreet.com. I have an earlier timeline which I need to finish and post — maybe I can get to it later this weekend. . .
February 1st, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Barry: Well, TheStreet.com wasn’t a blog — though in hindsight it should have been, with Cramer’s frenetic posting of the Wrong! column. He was the first blogging day trader I suppose (’98?). Another oldie who springs to mind is Alan Farley (with his Hard Right Edge), but again, he wasn’t really a blogger … none of us were, “blogging” hadn’t been invented yet.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:33 pm
The Trading Diary was the section I was thinking of — 5-10 short posts a day, specifically discussing the market ebb and flow — very blog like (no trackbacks or comments though)
February 2nd, 2007 at 2:58 am
Chairman, if age and a listing in the original “ValueWiki” post are the only criteria for making it to this list, the SINLetter blog would be number 13 as I wrote my first blog post on December 11, 2005.
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:57 am
hARUMF! You wouldn’t call an accountant a carpenter just because he picked up a frickin’ hammer. It’s just software - a format - that’s all it is. But! No one who started in the mainstream media will ever be a blogger, no matter how many times they swing the hammer.
Similarly, no matter how many original posts come from hired staff at an aggregator’s site, that’s not a blog.
The “spirit” of blogging is the individual with a printing press. Publishing houses need not apply …
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
CM,
Killed the stock talk on the personal site and first posted to dummyspots.com on 12/8/05. And it was your earlier trading series that gave me the idea for the domain, of course. Cheers!
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Will: Did you put the check in the mail yet? ;-)
March 28th, 2007 at 7:24 am
But Chairman, you are being too humble. Your site was up before 2001. Maybe it wasn’t a ‘blog’ in the wordpress sense but it was packed with nutritious market info.
March 28th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Babak: I’ve never been accused of humility, but you’re right, maoxian.com dates back to February 2000. 99% of all the stuff pre-September 2001 is lost.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:04 am
“99% of all the stuff pre-September 2001 is lost.”
I wouldn’t be so sure about that ;)
March 28th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Babak: If you have it, send it along and I’ll repost it.