Tools

• Latest Q3 2019 Batch is out … happy reading.

• FRED is the St Louis Federal Reserve’s economic data service.
• It is a really useful data resource on the US economy.
• You can set up a dashboard of your favourite economic statistics.

• Snippet tries to give you useful tools. These include:
• A useful app to save articles to read later.
• How to check up on the health of the UK or US Economies.
• To see what stocks are being shorted.
• You can always find the Tools link in the sidebar.
• There will be plenty more to come.

• Google Trends data is very useful for analysis.
• You can plot search traffic over time or compare search terms.
• Traffic is indexed (hit the ? next to “interest over time” for details).
• Worth playing around with this to see if it is useful in your analysis.

• Seeking Alpha has an excellent page called Market Currents.
• It is a feed of all the news going on in the US market with several bullet points on each news item.

• The FCA requires that any short position >0.5% be disclosed.
• You can find a spreadsheet on FCA website with all these positions – by stocks and by disclosing fund manager. Updated daily.
• You can then easily make a pivot table to see top shorted stocks etc.
• Kier, Thomas Cook and the AA are in the top.

• Many in the financial profession, especially those on the buy-side, will know that keeping up with reading is both vital and overwhelming.
• One app that is fantastic is Pocket.
• No time to read the interesting articles (posted on Snippet)? No problem. Just click the pocket button at the top of your browser to save it for later.
• You can then see all your articles in the app, and they all get downloaded to be read offline (like in the tube on the way home).
• It is very easy to use – you can then archive read articles, it gives you an estimate of how long each one takes to read etc.
• No more lost gems!

Welcome to Snippet.Finance. We aim to bring you lots of interesting snippets from reading widely about the financial world aimed squarely at those already engaged with it. Topics will include stocks, macroeconomics and strategy. We also plan to add useful personal finance tips for those in the UK and eventually provide some useful excel based tools for a small nominal charge. Feel free to subscribe or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn (links on the side). Our disclaimer is simple – in no shape or form shall any of the content be considered financial advice. We will credit all and every source with a direct link. Happy reading!