Since 2005, PredictWallStreet has been harnessing the collective intelligence of online investors to gain an edge in the market. We then provide that edge to:

1. End users and retail investors – for free. (Learn More)
2. Broker Partners – for a licensing fee. (Learn More)
3. Financial Media Partners – for a licensing fee. (Learn More)
4. Other financial institutions – for a licensing fee. (Contact us for more information)

Any end user can participate in our Global Stock Prediction Community by visiting our site and making a stock prediction. In return for sharing your stock prediction, we instantly show you, for free:

1. Poll results of what other people think.
2. Accuracy of the community for the stock you predicted on.
3. How sentiment on the stock has changed over time and how it compares with the stock price.
4. How bullish or bearish the community is on your stock, its sector, and its industry.
5. Stocks with the highest prediction and/or tweet activity.
6. A list of up to 6 daily stock Forecasts that are produced by proprietary quantitative algorithms that process the predictions made by millions of online investors, today and in the past.

If you register (also free), you can exchange information with other members of the community, compete against other stock predictors for cash prizes, follow the best predictors, and more.

While we hope you derive value from all of the features and tools on our site, we are especially proud of our daily Forecasts. The Forecasts are NOT simply a summary of what the community thinks. Rather, the Forecasts are the result of many years of research developing quantitative algorithms which then PROCESS the raw prediction input from all the community members. Sometimes the Forecasts will be in the opposite direction of the majority of community predictions, so this distinction is important.

We release these daily forecasts, BEFORE the opening bell in NY, each trading morning. The forecasts are of the form: "XYZ stock will close UP or DOWN from where it opens this morning." At the end of the day we track which of our forecasts were correct and which were incorrect. Then we calculate the theoretical profit that would have been made trading the forecasts. Our whitepaper explains our methodology (which is unchanged since we first announced it publically in Feb 2008). Both the whitepaper and the graph on our homepage show the theoretical performance of trading our forecasts since we first started releasing them publically in 2007. We consider our Forecast performance to be the best proof that it is possible to harness collective intelligence to solve extremely difficult problems – for example beating the market.

Our long term vision is to leverage our success in applying collective intelligence in the financial area to other areas. We believe collective intelligence can not only help investors make profits, but also help solve many of the problems facing our planet and its people.

Important disclaimer: All trading in the stock market is speculative and losses can and will occur. Commodity trading in particular involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not indicative of future results. PredictWallStreet, LLC is not an investment advisor or broker, and recommends that all investors consult with a broker or financial professional before making any trades in the stock market.

Management Team

Craig Kaplan, Ph.D., Founder and CEO – Craig is responsible for both the vision and the patented methods that process the collective intelligence of online investors to generate an edge in the market. Previously, Craig spent twelve years as CEO of iQ Company and has also worked at IBM and at the University of California Santa Cruz as a visiting professor in Computer Science. He holds MS and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University where he co-authored papers with a Nobel-Prize winning economist. He is a member of the scientific research society Sigma Xi and has authored and co-authored more than 30 publications, including a book and eight patents in the software field.

Calen Lopata, Vice President of Development – Calen oversees business development, engineering and information technology initiatives within the company and frequently serves as technical liaison. He started working with PredictWallStreet in 2002, developing a beta web site and the first graphical prediction interface. Outside PredictWallStreet, he founded a successful web consulting company and spun off a specialized online educational service. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Michelle Samis, Director of Business Operations – Michelle has a degree in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Master's degree in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling from Chapman University. She holds a current California license to practice Marriage and Family Therapy. After 12 years in private practice, during which she established the in-house Family Court Services for Santa Cruz County, she 'retired' to work in the family wholesale warehouse business. During her 5 years of tenure there, she developed and refined her business skills and knowledge. She brings that experience to PredictWallStreet as she manages all business fronts including accounting, contracts, patents, and human resources. She has been with the company since 2006.

Mario Albuquerque, Senior Researcher – Mario focuses his research activities on furthering progress in harnessing the power of collective intelligence. He constantly strives to translate that into investment strategies that achieve the highest risk adjusted returns. He is also in charge of all trading functions at PredictWallStreet, overseeing the validation of his research work. His fascination and passion for financial markets compelled him to pursue and achieve the CFA Charterholder designation as well as the Master of Financial Engineering degree from the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley (2013). He strives to live according to Socrates' quote: "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance".

Advisors

Curt Breitfuss - Curt's experience in the financial trading markets over the last 27 years has enabled him to create a proprietary research and development program to seek out the most compatible and profitable trading strategies in the hedge fund industry. Curt's tenure through many financial climates reflects the patience, persistence, and focus it takes to run a top-ranked fund of funds for 27 years. His teaching and insights have been adopted by the rest of the management team.

Ivan Brockman - Ivan Brockman is a Senior Managing Director with The Blackstone Group, leading the firm's corporate and M&A advisory group in Silicon Valley. Mr. Brockman advises companies in all sectors of technology. Prior to Blackstone, Mr. Brockman was the co-head of Citigroup's west coast technology investment banking efforts. In addition, Mr. Brockman was previously a Vice President with Goldman Sachs in technology investment banking and a corporate securities and M&A attorney with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Mr. Brockman holds a B.S. with Distinction from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Sid Dorr - Sid Dorr was employed in the securities industry from 1972 until retiring in 2006. His career revolved around the trading of equity securities. He worked at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia and Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta before joining Charles Schwab & Co to manage their institutional business in 1989. Mr Dorr has served on the board of the Chicago Stock Exchange as well as various committees on the CBOE and Pacific Exchange. He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mark L. Feldman, Ph.D - Mark is the CEO of Destiny Bay Wine Imports, exclusive importer of luxury, Bordeaux‐style blends from Destiny Bay Vineyards, an artisan winery on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. He is also the managing partner of Five Frogs Group, a venture consultancy, and a Board member of several companies. Earlier, Mark was a partner and global practice leader for merger and acquisition consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers and president of the Rubicon Group, specializing in transactions and trade between US and Asian companies. In his over 25 years' experience in mergers and acquisitions, he worked with such diverse global corporations as Adobe Systems, Microsoft, Barclays Group, DaimlerChrysler, Hewlett Packard, Pearson plc, Alcoa, JDS Uniphase, Global Crossing, McDonnell‐Douglas and Goodyear.

Frederick L. A. Grauer - Dr. Grauer chairs the Board of Directors of Purfresh, Inc., and is a board member or advisor to Course Hero, Credit Sesame, Hamilton Ventures Merchant Bank and PredictWallStreet. He was for nine years Senior Advisor to Barclays Global Investors and its acquirer, BlackRock, Inc., and was for fifteen years the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Barclays Global Investors and its predecessors. Fred is a Trustee/Director of the American Century Mountain View Funds. Previously, he was a member of the Management Committee of Barclays plc and a senior executive of Well Fargo Bank with varying responsibilities, as member of its Asset-Liability Committee, EVP and head of its Funding Group and CEO of WFIA. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Fred has a Ph.D. from Stanford University and was a professor at M.I.T. and Columbia University. Global Custodian Magazine recognized Fred as one of the 100 most important contributors to modern finance in the 20th century. His not-for-profit focus is on education. He is Immediate Past Chair and Charter Trustee of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, an Advisor to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and was formerly a Trustee of the Commonfund, the Menlo School and the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Melvin J. Kaplan - Melvin J. Kaplan is Chief Executive Officer of Wellington Financial Group, an entity which invests in commercial real estate nationally. In 1987 Mel and his wife founded The Harry Singer Foundation, a nonprofit educational operating foundation dedicated to youth development. He serves on its Board of Directors and advises various other 501(c)(3) foundations. Mel also serves on the Board of Aspire Public Schools, a public charter school organization that currently serves a total of over 8,000 students in grades K-12 at 25 locations in California. Born and raised in Boston, Mel is an alumnus of MIT and the University of California-Berkeley where he lectured at the School of Business Administration. His specialty continues to be problem-solving and entrepreneurship. With his wife of forty-nine years, he successfully raised five philanthropic and entrepreneurial sons. Over the past 49 years, Mel has been active in the real estate industry as a broker, syndicator, mortgage banker, developer, property manager, advisor and currently as investment banker and principal.

Dr. Howard Morgan - Dr. Howard Morgan is co-founder/ partner in First Round Capital, a seed stage venture capital firm. He has more than 30 years of experience with more than two hundred high-tech entrepreneurial ventures. He serves on the boards of Idealab, Fab.com, GumGum, DogVacay and other companies. Howard was a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and Caltech. He a Trustee of Cold Spring Harbor Labs and Math For America and is a respected author. He received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1997. He holds a Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University and a B.S. from the CCNY.

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