When it comes to bad online reviews and negative brand sentiment, i’ve got a fair bit of experience in the area. I spent 18 months working for a prominent online retailer, who over the years, had managed to amass a startling number of dissatisfied customers. This dissatisfaction manifested itself in a veritable avalanche of negative reviews and sentiment. Before any […]
NEW! Download all of 2013 Performance: Click to Download!OR Download all of 2014 Performance to Date: Click to Download!The Dow opens + 44 and our open trade leaps to + 28k. (click to enlarge)INVN (click image to enlarge)TQNT (click image to enlarge)75 minutes in (click image to enlarge)ABTL (click image to enlarge)GDX (click image to enlarge)MNKD (click image to enlarge)3 […]
Twitter had their first quarterly earnings report after their IPO and came out with strong revenues of $243 mn for Q4, beating the analysts’ estimates of $218 mn.And yet the stock tanked on the markets and Twitter (TWTR) lost a quarter of their market cap or close to $10 bn in value, after the results were announced!What happened? What went […]
BI IntelligenceThe world’s largest social networks are storing massive amounts of never-before-analyzed data that could reveal lucrative information about consumers — from how people are influenced, to what triggers an intent to purchase.
However, as much as 90% of that data is “unstructured,” meaning it’s spontaneously generated and not easily captured and classified. But machine learning or artificial intelligence […]
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Red Jahncke argues that the recent drop in U.S. stock markets may be a delayed response to a tax change:In late 2012, investors sold huge amounts of investments with long-term capital gains to take advantage of the expiring 15% “Bush” long-term capital-gains tax rate before the current 23.8% rate for higher-income investors took effect […]
Investors who dismissed some hoary market rules of thumb last year as old wives’ tales did pretty well. Does that mean it makes sense to ignore the cautionary message of the so-called January Barometer following a decidedly weak first month of 2014?In 2013, on the way to as 30% ascent, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (GSPC) refused to ratify […]
Lojko: social media mattersHelping traders to understand input from social media can be a key differentiating factor, according to Albert Lojko, head of content strategy, data management and delivery at Thomson Reuters.Lojko previously worked at online trading company Tradeweb, where he was involved in building the site’s trading platform. He joined Thomson Reuters and began work on its Eikon trading […]
If the January Barometer is any guide, stocks could be in for a rough 2014. The 2013 gain of over 29% in the S&P 500 and the gain of over 26% in the Dow Jones Industrial Average may have simply pulled forward most of the expected gains that could be had in 2014. The Dow is now close to being […]
If the January Barometer is any guide, stocks could be in for a rough 2014. The 2013 gain of over 29% in the S&P 500 and the gain of over 26% in the Dow Jones Industrial Average may have simply pulled forward most of the expected gains that could be had in 2014. The Dow is now close to being […]
After reporting both a top and bottom miss, Amazon fell 10.32 percent in after-hours trading. The company had ended the day at $403.01 and is now trading at $361.41. As a company, Amazon is valued by investors on the strength or weakness of its revenue growth.Amazon’s current share count is 457.73 million. At a per-share loss of $41.60 so far today, Amazon has lost […]
