What is tickerspy?

tickerspy is a revolutionary new website that allows users to harness the power of the investing community to track information about their stocks. With tickerspy, you can:

• Track multiple portfolios of stocks and see a chart of your portfolio's performance.
• Get up to the minute Alerts on the stocks, tickerspy members, and Pros you are tracking.
• See how you stack up to investing legend Warren Buffett, while also comparing your performance to that of nearly 1,500 Wall Street institutions and hedge funds.
• See a list of portfolios that closely match your own, so you can see which institutional and individual investors share your investing strategy.
• See graphs of your portfolios' performance as well as graphs tracking the performance of hundreds of hedge funds and institutional investors.
• Contribute news items and original research to the community.
• Engage in conversations about stocks and financial news.
• Find out which other users and professional investors are interested in the same stocks as you.

How do I use tickerspy?

1. Add Tickers
Use tickerspy portfolios to track news on your favorite stocks from hundreds of sources. Once you have a portfolio, you'll be able to compare your portfolio's performance with thousands of hedge funds, Wall Street institutions, and individual investors. You'll also see portfolios from professional and individual investors whose investing strategy closely matches your own. You'll see a chart of your portfolio's performance and you'll get Alerts based on the tickers you're tracking.

2. Post Stories
Spotted a news story that investors should know about? Want to share some thoughts on a particular stock? Post your research and analysis to tickerspy so others can weigh in.

3. Tap in to the Flow of Investment News
Type any ticker symbol into tickerspy to see what is being said about that stock. View lists of hot stocks, stories, and users to keep up on the news and to generate investment ideas. Use Alerts to get up to the minute notifications on the tickers, members, and Pros you are tracking. Our Data Alerts will keep you up to date on stocks making notable moves.

What are tickerspy Alerts?

• See which members and Pros are tracking the same tickers as you.
• Track the activity of any tickerspy member or Pro. Follow a tickerspy member, and get notified when he adds or removes tickers from his portfolio, posts news to tickerspy, starts tracking other members and more. Follow a tickerspy Pro and be notified when that institution has new quarterly holdings.
• Use our Data Alerts to see which tickers are making notable moves. You are also notified when one of your tickers is making a notable move.

What are "Pro Portfolios?"

Pro portfolios track the top 15 quarterly holdings of more than 1,400 institutions. Comments in Pro portfolios show the institution's change in shares held for each company quarter over quarter.

Pro portfolio performance is based on institutions' top 15 holdings as disclosed in quarter-end filings with the SEC. Pro performance does not take into account additional holdings beyond the top 15 nor does it include positions that are not required to be disclosed by the SEC. As such, Pro portfolio performance should be considered an approximation and not a precise record of how an institution has performed over time.

Where do the "Notes & Links" come from?

Notes & Links come into tickerspy in three ways:

• Links to news items and other relevant information from around the web are submitted by users.
• Users can submit their own original notes and research.
• Automated feeds bring in links to news items from various sources.

I submitted a link to tickerspy but it didn't show up.  What happened?

It's possible that the link you submitted was already in our system.

The other possibility is that the link or post was removed due to its content. Our editors remove any submissions that are not relevant to investing and to the stock market. That way we can keep our content focused on the market. Likewise, we remove any links that we determine are spam - we define these as non-sponsored links that are trying to sell the users something.

Finally, tickerspy reserves the right to remove items and comments that contain abusive language or that generally don't add to the level of discourse at the site - i.e. the pumping or bashing that have marred so many investment discussion web sites. Users can notify tickerspy of inappropriate content by clicking the red "Flag" link at the bottom of any news item.

For more details see our "Posting Guidelines" on our posting page.

What's the My tickerspy page?

Your My tickerspy page is your profile within the tickerspy community. On your My tickerspy page, you can receive messages from other members and share some information about yourself and your investing philosophy. Your My tickerspy page also provides easy access to recent stories you have submitted or commented on as well as to your portfolios and tracked members. You can also use the tabs above the profile to keep track of your Tracked members and members that you've "ignored" as well as to edit your profile information.

How do I ignore stories and comments from another user?

Click on "ignore" next to the user's name and you'll no longer see anything submitted by that user.  You can see a list of users you're ignoring (and "un-ignore" them if you want) via your My tickerspy page.

How do I keep track of other users' activity on tickerspy?

Spotted a user you'd like to keep eye on? Or do you want to track the holdings in a pro portfolio? Just click on add user and you'll be able to track their activity from your Tracked Members page.

How can I find out who else is tracking a certain stock in his or her portfolio?

From the quote page, click on the Spy link and you can view a list of users tracking and posting news about that ticker.

How do the Spy Scorecards work?

Below is a description of each of the components of the Scorecard.

Member Holders: This is the number of members currently holding the stock in a portfolio.

1 Week Change: This is the change in the number of member holders over the last week.

Rank: This is the stock's rank based on how many holders it has. The stock ranked number one is held by the most tickerspy members.

1 Week Rank Change: This is the change in rank over the last week.

Member Shorts: This is the number of members currently shorting the stock in a portfolio.

1 Week Shorts Change: This is the change in the number of members shorting the stock over the last week.

Short Rank: This is the stock's rank based on how many members are shorting it. The stock ranked number one has the highest number of members shorting it.

1 Week Shorts Rank Change: This is the change in shorts rank over the last week.

Pro Holders: This is the number of Pro investors holding the stock.

Pro Rank: This the stock's rank based on the number of Pros holding it.

Top Member: This is the member with the best period of performance holding the stock in question.

I'm having a problem with my account.  What can I do?

Send an email to help@tickerspy.com with a description of the problem you're having, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

I have another question, who can I contact?

Send an email to help@tickerspy.com with your question and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.