Conrad dedicated nearly six years to building Wikinvest, with projects including a
portfolio tracker synchronized with users» brokerages; an interactive, freely embeddable
stock chart; and Hurricane, a tool enabling real - time extraction
of structured data, like earnings results culled from press releases.
Indeed, data shows about a quarter
of more than 360,000 investors who synched their
portfolios with online
tracker SigFig sold
stocks when the Dow tumbled nearly 1,900 points in one dismal week last August.