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
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEntrepreneur
OrganizationTickerTags

Career edit

Chris 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "TickerTags First to Call Brexit Results Using Twitter Data". Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  3. ^ a b Taylor, Susan (1 November 2011). "How One Amateur Investor Spots Stocks Before Wall Street". usnews.
  4. ^ This Guy Turned $20K Into $2 Million (You Can, Too), Bloomberg.com, retrieved 2017-02-28
  5. ^ "Chris Camilo Audit" (PDF).
  6. ^ "Making Millions in the Stock Market Easier Than You Think?". Fox Business. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
  7. ^ Street", Chris Camillo|Author, "Laughing at Wall (2011-10-18). "Should Your Investment Strategy Include "Laughing at Wall Street?"". CNBC. Retrieved 2017-02-28. {{cite news}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Stock investors: TickerTags is now offering a free, early-warning listening platform". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2017-02-27.