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With the recent success of StockTwits market seems to indicate that there is enough demand for social service, micro blogs, stocks, trade and financial information. Or at least that's what Stocial hope. Seattle-based startup, which starts today in public beta, wants to be in the concept, love StockTwits and Yahoo! Finance — or said another way, Bloomberg for the people, by the people.
In fact Stocial wants to give users access realtime market data and trends in stocks and virtual game ified ". Of course, most tickers are the first two and StockTwits certainly shows that Twitter can be a great resource for real-time financial information. But Stocial founder and CEO Kamr Fahad said that, with its 140 characters, Twitter does not realize the full potential for the exchange of stock information.
Stocial wants to include a Twitter feed, but go several steps further by giving users access to breaking news from the business insider, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Bloomberg, etc., all curated by live. So that users do not only have their Twitter feed, but social channel, where they can see the information from friends and followers, as well as "stock pick" tracks, you guessed it, what actions people are gathering and sharing at Stocial. More channels is more involved.
Users can also customize their viewing platform for stocks Stocial news and trends for the common market, or for specific stocks, monitor these stocks, or create a community of experts and top investors on Twitter and Stocial, as well as News and tweets in real time or top elements. And much of its infrastructure is powered by Echo, so that it is scalable and real time.
But perhaps the best part is that Stocial offers "contests" where users can win cash and, ultimately, even land a job. In these competitions the users get to pick stocks, go long or short and pick up their price. Competitions generally last two days or weeks when the winner gets a $ 50 cash. And, ultimately, $ 100 and more.
Stocial thus stimulating their users, offering the carrot at the end of the line. Launch currently cooperates with investment companies and banks to the top source of trade places. Thus, it allows its users collect Startup icons and raise their reputation score on the platform for the collection of stocks, interacting and sharing when it reaches a sufficiently high level of participation, the user receives the right to a great prize: an interview with one of these leading companies.
While startups like Zecco take new approaches to social stock trading, offering users the ability to trade in actual markets — on Facebook, in the case of Zecco — Stocial instead of focusing on virtual trade. Instead of being a place where users can trade at real markets (and there are plenty of them), a Seattle Startup wants to be a resource for personalized content, training ground for users who want to go to the real markets.
To make less scary to trade stocks, Stocial created a simple virtual stock trading platform. Stocial only focuses on making stock, or, in other words, to make predictions on where can lead a stock taking of portfolios and risk-laden aspect of speculation out of the equation. In essence Exchange trade can really feel the game, but of course, when you play for real money, it's nothing. Thus, with its virtual stock market seems positioned to take advantage of the inherent Stocial professionalism in the trade, but without the risk and reward.
Stocial value proposition, at least compared to StockTwits is run offers realtime, personal financial news curation and allows users to not only participate in the conversation via Twitter, but the platform's threaded comments (which are very similar to Facebook comments). How will the StockTwits Stocial social opening, allowing users to discover new friends and experts based on the stocks which they have chosen. It also includes your existing social circles, so when friends on Facebook join Stocial, users immediately be warned.
Stocial is currently a group of four is currently in the process of testing the viability of its commercial activities in outer space and fully initialized at this point, although he looks to raise first round investments in the coming months.
TechCrunch readers can grab Stocial early access to beta version here.
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