THE BLOG
April 15, 2008
Hi everyone,
We have some exciting improvements that we've been working on for quite some time.
The first one is the Hedge Fund transaction database. You've all been asking for
it and we built it. This section will work a little different and in some ways better
than the mutual fund database. It will be updated more frequently and the number
of hedge funds will grow over time.
The second major addition is the Enterprise Solutions offering. Those of you who've
been a subscriber know that we've been collecting and analyzing mutual fund transactions
going back to 2006 now. We've launched a new product that gives you full access
to this database with pre-built Excel reports. To learn more, click on the Enterprise
link above.
The third major improvement happened on the technical side of things. We've transitioned
into bigger and more powerful servers to serve you better. And you might have noticed
the slight change in the look and feel. We're constantly working to improve the
usability of our site.
Well, enjoy the new features, and drop me a line at main@thebuylist.com with any
comments/questions!
Matt
May 1, 2007
Hi everyone,
We're excited to announce some new features which are significant add-ons to the
site.
The site now has a menu on the top that contains the links to the new features.
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
Under this section, we provide industry level buy/sell data. All the stocks in a
given industry is summarized and an overall buy/sell percentage is presented. Non-subscribers
get a free preview of an industry. Subscribers get all the industries.
RANKS and RATINGS
Each stock in our database now has a rank and a rating. The stocks are ranked based
on the total transaction volume on the stocks and the number of fund managers who
bought them. As of the last update, AT&T (T) is ranked #1 which means the most
number of mutual fund managers bought T at the highest level of transaction volume.
Ratings are numbers from 1 to 10. This number is derived from the BUY percentage
of a stock. So if a stock is bought 80% by the top managers, meaning, 80% of their
transactions were BUY's, that stock will have a rating of 8.0. Ratings and rankings
are different things, but they compliment one another. For example a stock might
have a rating of 10 but a ranking of 750. What that means is while all the transactions
on that stock were BUY's (100%), there are 749 stocks that were bought by more fund
managers at higher transactions.
Charts and Research is the old Portfolio Charts and My Account section is where
you build your watchlists and portfolios.
These are some major improvements. We hope you enjoy them!
More to come,
Matt
For comments, email main@thebuylist.com.
March 8, 2007
Hi everyone,
Been a while since my last update and we have some news and some very exciting new
features.
First, we made a decision to move to a subscription-based service. For those of
you who had been with us since the beginning, you have a free ride until January
2008. The feedback from the market had been very good. Our page views reach 10-15k
per day some days with 3-4k unique visitors. (We launched back in November, 2006)
Second, we have added a very cool new feature. Many sites have portfolio building
capabilities and in some sites, you can see expert portfolios too. Well, we built
a portfolio feature based on our platform. You can build a portfolio or look at
some expert portfolios and see what the mutual funds did on those stocks. It gives
you a very quick picture of the portfolio if you want to compare it to the mutual
funds. So we looked at Cramer's picks and here's what it gave us:
For each stock, the blue area is the percentage of BUY transactions executed by
mutual funds and the red area is the SELL transactions.
We also ran a query in the system to see if there are any stocks that were 100%
buys or 100% sells and there were! We set up a special portfolio for those, too.
To see the portfolio charts, or to create your own, go to: http://www.thebuylist.com/Chart_BuySell.aspx
Thanks a lot for your feedback and there's more to come soon.
Sincerely,
Matt
January 16, 2007
Happy new year everyone!
We added a cool new feature. You can now see summary data for each stock on the
very first page. It looks like this:
We have some very cool features coming up in this area. For example, if you want
to know if there are stocks that are bought by several funds but not sold, you'll
be able to see that with one click. Stay tuned!
Matt
December 12, 2006
We finished enhancing the watchlist feature. Now, when you're looking at a list
of transactions, you can add a stock or fund to your watchlist on-the-spot by clicking
on + Add. This feature allows you to add any stock/fund to any one of your lists.
Of course, you can always add stocks manually by logging in your profile.
Posted by Matt
December 5, 2006
We just added a new feature which
we think you'll really like. You can now login to thebuylist.com and create a watchlist
of stocks and funds. When we update our database, you'll receive emails if there's
activity on the stocks or funds on your watchlist. So if a fund manager loads up
on your pick or dumps it, we'll let you know.
We also have recent data updates,
so take a look at the new data and the new features, and click on a fund name when
you're researching a stock. It'll take you to a screen where you'll see some historical
activity. For instance, on GOOG, Janus Advisor Forty S fund added 59k as of the
update on 11/8 and another 14.5k after that.
http://www.thebuylist.com/drillbyfund.aspx?SYMBOL=JARTX&STOCK=goog
Enjoy!
Posted by Matt
November 11, 2006
We added a cool new feature. When
you click on a fund name on the main screen, it takes you to a page that shows some
historical data based on that fund and the stock you did the search for.
So if you look at the transactions
for ORCL, and then click on CHASX, you'll see that CHASX bought 2mil shares as of
the update that happened on 11/8 and sold 53,400 shares as of 11/13. They also bought
28,000 shares of LMT and then another 80,900 shares. So this gives you an idea about
what the fund managers are doing in terms of their positions.
More to come,
Matt