Chris Camillo is an American author, investor and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of TickerTags,[1] a social data intelligence company, known for predicting the Brexit result in 2016.[2] In 2020, he was featured in Jack Schwager's book Unknown Market Wizards: The best traders you've never heard of.
Chris Camillo | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Organization | TickerTags |
Career
editChris Camillo started his investing career in 2007, when he invested 20,000 USD in the stock market, and produced more than $2 million in investment returns during the following three-year period.[3][4] In 2014, an independent accountant's report of his personal investment returns for the period of December 1, 2006 through November 30 2013 was publicly published documenting seven years of 84% averaging portfolio returns.[5]
In 2011, he wrote the book Laughing at Wall Street: How I beat the Pros at investing, published by St. Martin Press, in which he revealed some of his strategies and insights.[6][7][3]
In 2015, and after two years of development, Chris launched his social data tool TickerTags,[1] and a company with the same name. TickerTags is a social listening platform that gives investors the ability to monitor the conversation around keywords pertinent to publicly traded securities and other investable assets on platforms like Twitter.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b "The Pitch: Dallas startup TickerTags to launch beta fintech platform this week". www.bizjournals.com. Archived from the original on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
- ^ "TickerTags First to Call Brexit Results Using Twitter Data". Retrieved 2017-02-27.
- ^ a b Taylor, Susan (1 November 2011). "How One Amateur Investor Spots Stocks Before Wall Street". usnews.
- ^ This Guy Turned $20K Into $2 Million (You Can, Too), Bloomberg.com, retrieved 2017-02-28
- ^ "Chris Camilo Audit" (PDF).
- ^ "Making Millions in the Stock Market Easier Than You Think?". Fox Business. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
- ^ Camillo, Chris (2011-10-18). "Should Your Investment Strategy Include "Laughing at Wall Street?"". CNBC. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
- ^ "Stock investors: TickerTags is now offering a free, early-warning listening platform". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2017-02-27.