REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.We’re Far From Euphoria (MarketMinder) Stocks had a record year in 2013, with the S&P 500 returning 30%. Now many wonder if the market looks frothy and if we’re overdue for a correction. “It’s been a long time since […]
SummaryA recent academic study, highlighted in today’s WSJ, validates that crowd-sourced research is predictive of future stock prices.
SA articles and comments were predictive of future stock prices and earnings surprises over all time-frames studied, from one month to three years.
Traditional media, sell-side research, and […]
Re: Technical Analysis and Individual InvestorsPosted by JC Parets
on March 19th, 2014
Share on StockTwitsI’m going to keep this short and sweet. I don’t think it’s worth dedicating more than a couple of minutes to commenting this study. I’m referring to last month’s release of a paper written by Arvid Hoffman and Hersh Shefrin titled, […]
CEO Ben Werther asks: Who needs a gut feeling in business when you’ve got the facts?Platfora says it can analyze all of a company’s data to help executives make better decisions.FORTUNE — The big data startup Platfora announced on Wednesday that it raised $38 million in a series C round led by Tenaya Capital.The round also included Citi Ventures, Cisco, […]
To make marketing data work, you need to be able to measure and understand performance against a standard set of metrics. The challenge lies in marrying data from web analytics with search and social signals, and then being able to tie that to business value (for example, the correlation of search rankings with visits and conversions).Did you know the average […]
Loud and proud. Boohoo.com makes extensive use of social media. Photograph: boohoo.comThe clamour to invest in fashion website Boohoo.com put a rocket under its share price when it floated on Friday, with the fast-growing fashion website finishing the day with a market value of £840m, nipping at the heels of established FTSE 250 retailers such as Ted Baker and Debenhams.Shares […]
The share price of Boohoo.com (LSE:BOO) jumped 60% to 85p during early trade this morning, as the online fashion retailer made its stock market debut.The firm, founded in 2006, is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and recorded sales of £92m in the 10 months leading to December last year.At present the shares in boohoo.com are only available to […]
A significant research has put ‘big data’ collections from platforms such as Google, Twitter and Facebook in the dock, stating that campaigns and companies can manipulate these platforms to ensure their products or issues are trending.To cement their view, authors examined Google’s data-aggregating tool Google Flu Trend (GFT) which was designed to provide real-time monitoring of flu cases around the […]
• Ensure risk management is in place• Reduce position size• Give stocks time to consolidate big movesIn any asset class, whether it be stocks, bonds, currencies or commodities, there is a constant ebb and flow of money rotating in and out of different areas. In currencies the focus on any given day, week, month or quarter may move from the […]
India’s stock market has hit record highs on consecutive days over the past few weeks, largely due to an outpouring of optimism that Narendra Modi, a pro-business and no-nonsense candidate for Prime Minister, will win the upcoming election.James Crabtree reports for the FT:The benchmark Sensex index retreated slightly on Tuesday, but the day before it nosed above 22,000 for the […]
