One well-accepted gauge of “fear” in the market is the VIX. The VIX typically rises in times of market distress as options traders hedge their positions, thereby causing an increase in the price of implied volatility – leading to a rise in the VIX. Popular ETFs such as VXX are constructed to replicate the value of the VIX. Hence, a […]
Share on StockTwitsEmbedI am working with two busted fingers on my left hand for the next 6 weeks which is a bummer because I am in a writing mood.I have been trading a little bit off the mood of the market the last few weeks with some good results. We have entered an era where the news and flow of […]
By Darin Wolter, Executive Vice President, Global Sales, MarketwiredIn 2013, Marketwired conducted a survey and reported that investors on Wall Street were catching on to social media. Approximately 70% of investors under the age of 40 believed the SEC ruling to allow companies to distribute through social media was beneficial. It was also 60% of these respondents who used social […]
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Twitter bases the majority of its revenue on advertising in and around its main content river, but a new service from Thomson Reuters points to how it also continues to build up its position as a big-data provider to different vertical sectors. Thomson Reuters is now incorporating sentiment analysis gained from Twitter for its Eikon market analysis and trading platform. The […]
Why is Spanish social media sentiment so down on the Estado de la Unión (SOTU) address even though President Obama has an overwhelming likeable sentiment?Although the President urged Congress to pass the immigration reform bill this year in his “Year of Action” plan, was his call for action underplayed? Are the minimum wage reform proposals short-sighted? Is the economic […]
Hispanic Social Sentiment Lags for Estado de la Unión (SOTU)
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Understand the business value in “human data” – emotion, intent, connection – in online, social, and enterprise sources via text, speech, video and social-network analytics. Early bird till Jan 31 + KDnuggets discount.By Seth Grimes, Jan 28, 2014.
I wanted to make sure you know about the next Sentiment Analysis Symposium, March 5-6, 2014 in New York. The […]
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Social Sentiment's Missing Measures – Social Media Explorer
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5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)**************************************************************************************************http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/*******************************************************BACKGROUND*******************************************************Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP), has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that made it possible […]
