Tim it looks to me as if you should move your thread to this:
SI should pay close attention
Scott
Raging Bull Founders Featured in New YorkMagazine's 'Wall Street Winners' Cover Story
January 13, 1999 10:16 AM
ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 1999--
Partners Say 1999 Shaping Up To Be Even Better; Exclusive Member Offerings And Enhanced Financial Tools To Come
Raging Bull , the Internet's fastest-growing hot spot for online stock discussion, free stock quotes and market analysis, has been featured among the Wall Street success stories of 1998 in this week's New York Magazine - available on the Web at nymag.com . The magazine's cover story, "Wall Street Winners" (issue date January 18), refers to Ragingbull.com as "a plucky and pleasingly intimate answer to online message-board giants..." and points to Raging Bull's innovative "Ignore" feature which gives members the power to filter their message board experience - saving time and eliminating unwanted input.
Raging Bull founding partners William (Bill) Martin, Greg Wright and Rusty Szurek are profiled alongside Wall Street wonders from Abby Joseph Cohen of Goldman, Sachs and Andy Stone of Credit Suisse First Boston to Rajiv Chaudhri, whose Digital Century Capital fund had the best returns of any New York-based fund in 1998. Cyber-Investing gurus also figure prominently in the piece, including Mark Friedfertig and George West, founders of Broadway Trading and co-authors of The Electronic Day Trader, as well as Joe Park (a.k.a. Tokyo Joe) who runs subscription stock tip Web site, Societe Anonyme.
"We are very flattered to be included in the New York Magazine Wall Street Winners feature," noted founding partner Bill Martin. "We have indeed had a stellar 1998 developing innovative new features and initiating key partnerships across the Web. But with the member benefits we will soon be announcing to better serve our growing body of active investors, 1999 is shaping up to be even better."
As the New York Magazine article notes, Web entrepreneurs and market enthusiasts Martin, Wright and Szurek received funding from @Ventures III, the venture capital arm of CMGI, Inc., CMGI in August, 1998. The Raging Bulls are most recently noted for the 1998 year-end success of the two model portfolios they manage on the site. The tech-stock-heavy Raging Portfolio ended the year up 100.14% and the more traditional Bullish Portfolio closed 1998 up 20%. Both model portfolios beat the S&P 500 in the comparable period - the former by an immense margin. The Raging Portfolio posted an additional eye-popping 33.49% gain in the first week of the New Year.
Traffic on the financial message boards, model portfolios, stock quote pages and other member features is increasing exponentially at Raging Bull, with a 120% increase in page views and a 35% increase in membership since January 1, 1999. A leading and entirely free financial site, Raging Bull continues to attract a robust community of savvy personal investors, comprising a unique informational resource for experienced and novice investors alike.
The leading message boards at ragingbull.com include: Wave Systems Corporation WAVX ; Yahoo! Inc., YHOO ; CMGI, Inc., CMGI ; Dell Computer Corporation DELL ; Lucent Technologies, Inc., LU ; Apple Computer, Inc., AAPL ; Citigroup Inc., C ; AT&T Corporation T ; Franklin Telecommunications Corporation FTEL ; Crystallex International KRY ; Intel Corporation INTC ; Compaq Computer Corporation CPQ ; Microsoft Corporation MSFT ; E*TRADE Group, Inc., EGRP ; Walt Disney Company DIS ; Infoseek Corporation SEEK ; Excite, Inc., XCIT ; Rentech, Inc., RNTK ; Navarre Corporation NAVR ; Zitel Corporation, ZITL ; Novell, Inc., NASDAQ:NOVL); Osicom Technologies, Inc., FIBR ; America Online, Inc., AOL ; Cisco Systems, Inc., CSCO ; Sun Microsystems, Inc., SUNW ; Ascend Communications ASND ; MCI WorldCom, Inc., WCOM ; Iomega Corporation IOM ; EMC Corporation EMC ; CIENA Corporation CIEN ; PeopleSoft, Inc., PSFT ; and 3Com Corporation COMS .
About Raging Bull
Raging Bull is a dynamic and free financial Web site dedicated to empowering online investors with the best in financial discussion and commentary alongside free stock quotes. The Company's in-house message board technology offers innovative features including a unique time-saving "Ignore" command to filter out unwanted postings. Users of personalized "My Raging Bull" home pages can easily track their preferred boards and members enables rapid navigation of their favorites.
The site also provides timely original analysis from the company's expert editorial staff, including The Capitalist Pig and NPR commentator, Jonathan Hoenig, as well as Matthew Ragas whose weekly Cyberstock Investor Report boasts delivery to many of Wall Street's financial elite. For more information on Raging Bull, go to ragingbull.com, call Krista Thomas at (978) 684-3141 or email: krista@ragingbull.com
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