Carl Icahn, like many activist investors, has discovered the value of talking his book through the media. Add Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) to his toolkit. Carl Icahn, in the middle of a war of words with the Silicon Valley tech community over eBay, said in a regulatory filing he plans on using Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) to talk stocks he likes. 155,000 Twitter followers on 99 Tweets Icahn’s Twitter feed has 155,000 followers and he has tweeted 99 times. He has no activity on his Facebook page other than saying he is “Chairman of Icahn Enterprises L.P.; etc., etc. Some people get rich…
Carl Icahn Will Now Start Using Facebook Inc (FB)
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.