Essential Daily Reads??

What are your essential daily reads (blogs etc) in the non-mainstream business media? What keeps you on top of latest trading ideas and news (in a global sense).

- Arb

 

Funny you mentioned this...because I decided to stop reading news last week -- I removed all the news sites from my browser favorites. I feel so much more freer...now that I don't have to feel compelled to read/follow news.

I don't need trading ideas -- I already know what and how to trade on my own.

 

If you a technical trader and you wish to live in the tape I guess thats an option. I trade and hedge those trades in a world driven by global macros events. For me there is no alternative.

 

Reuters, Platts, Drudge, and Google News Alerts. I have 400+ alerts set up for companies, key words, ports, people, etc. etc. etc. It's a constant flow of information.

 

ft.com (it's worth the ~$50USD/month)
quant.stackexchange.com
news.google.com

On the weekends I read a lot of FT. I usually try to read one finance, business, or quant book a week. Foreign Affairs is a great weekend publication.

I watch PBS News Hour in the evenings after dinner, mainly if there's anything going on that I'm interested in.

 

Zerohedge twitter feed. The rest are just click bait.

 

that place is nuts. flipping between it and ft.com is culture shock.

 

In the same vein for macro, I read Foreign Policy pretty religiously.

 

++ on Zerohedge. Great site.

 

I love zerohedge for very quick daily overview. His bottom line must be enhanced by his
End of Days persona. He cannot be that smart and that wrong.