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Ian Rosen

CEO,

StockTwits, Inc.

About Ian

Ian Rosen is the CEO of StockTwits, Inc.,the largest social platform for investors and traders, with more than 1.1 million registered users posting 150,000 messages daily. Prior to joining StockTwits, he co-founded and served as CEO of Even Financial, the only dedicated supply side platform for online financial products. Before that, Mr. Rosen served as general manager of MarketWatch Inc., one of the largest multi-channel markets and personal finance sources globally through 20%+ annualized growth. He has managed large financial data businesses at both Thomson Reuters and Dow Jones, and has held positions at Goldman Sachs, Accenture, and several small firms building financial data focused products and businesses.

Ian's Videos

Successful online finance brands such as Stocktwits, Estimize, iSentium, and others have built entire businesses around harnessing the predictive power of the masses to anticipate market trends. In doing so, they had to avoid the many dangers that surround a poorly created index to create something truly valuable. Will investor-sentiment analysis ever become a widely used factor? How has social media changed the available data and has it resulted in more accurate signals or just a lot more noise? Investopedia CEO David Siegel and panelists will explore these questions to help you profit from investor sentiment and avoid its pitfalls.