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I want to provide some information on the view from The Channel Checkers on the current news about insider trading probes and other collateral “crimes” being discussed in the media. We believe that many do not fundamentally appreciate what “research” is compared to “insider information”. Our view is that Regulation FD and the Mosaic Theory both say that material inside information from a company is not legal, while collecting many points of information, all of which are non-material by themselves, and creating a mass of data to draw a “material” conclusion about a company or security is legal. Here is a quote from a speech on the topic of research from the SEC:

The ICI, in particular, urged the Commission to reaffirm the core principles of the mosaic theory - under which an analyst can assemble pieces of non-public and immaterial information into a mosaic that reveals a material conclusion. I hope that the Commission’s adopting release couldn’t be clearer on this point. We did, of course, make clear that we wanted to keep a clear path for analysis while blocking the path to the practice of distributing material nonpublic information to a favored few.

The Channel Checkers is in the business of collecting large amounts of immaterial information that we believe our clients can add to their mosaics to help them draw better more meaningful investment conclusions. We do five things that make us unique when compared to expert networks and other independent research firms: 1. We never pay anybody for information (experts are paid) 2. We never contact or speak to high level personnel.  All our contacts are with frontline field workers who do not hold material information. 3. We do not catalog our channel check respondents meaning we do not build recurring information connections.  We capture random connections with people, boosting the immateriality of each individual connection we make. 4. We do not offer investment opinions to clients.  We intentionally ask our clients to not even tell us what purspose our channel checking data will be used for. 5. 100% transaprency.  We allow clients to dictate where, when and how we collect our data. We believe that large scale, low level channel checks meet the demands of Regulation FD while also providing strong insight into business trends in the real economy.  We believe that by collecting large amounts of immaterial information, better investment decisions can be reached, without legal risks that are sometimes required when utilizing other forms of investment research. Please take this posting as an invitation to reach to me or our team to have a discussion about our methods for research or for ideas on how to accomplish your research objectives in light of current events. Thank you. Casey Ryan Managing Partner The Channel Checkers 415.786.2607

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“Respected San Francisco Based Research Firm Offers Their Equity Research Via The Bloomberg Professional Newswire Service”

The Channel Checkers a well respected boutique research firm based in San Francisco announced today their research is now available on Bloomberg Professional Newswire Service. In an effort to provide unique channel data to the buy-side community and hedge funds alike, founder and CEO Casey Ryan has put together a team of analysts and sales professionals who work to provide research to the buy-side community, “as an analyst there is great opportunity to drive insights from our unique channel data reports”

Selected reports are available daily on Bloomberg terminals and provide readers real time channel information and allow investors to evaluate The Channel Checkers service. We look forward to our relationship with Bloomberg and we feel with our reports now on Bloomberg the buy-side and hedge fund community will now have access to never before seen levels of channel data.

Please contact Jason Katz directly at 415-867-0959 for information on how to subscribe to our premium idea generating service or for customized channel checks.

There is a new Channel Checkers property, CCers.tv.  Head over and check it out, we’re using data from The Channel Checkers to create an original content video site.  If you want to see the latest quick updates check out www.ccers.tv.

Welcome back to thechannecheckers.com.  We’ve moved to some professional hosting so our look has changed and our previous content won’t leave the mother server.  So it goes.

We will begin posting meaningful content today and will continue at a much brisker pace than our previous site version. Comments and opinions are always appreciated.