Recent posts have focused on ways of gauging broad market strength and weakness by tracking the wide range of individual stocks, rather than by relying solely upon a stock index. These market gauges include the percentage of stocks trading above their volume-weighted average prices; the upticks and downticks among all stocks trading in the U.S; and intraday new highs and […]
Of course, Google has been busy. In the past few years, researchers have cooked up a complex and powerful new data-warehousing system called Mesa.Mesa was born out of Google’s core business: Internet advertising. To serve its advertising customers and internal needs, Google collects detailed information about a given ad, and it has to record and process that data in real […]
Global stock markets were ripped in both directions today by various headlines and whispers. Early in the morning, equities rallied on news that Russian President Vladimir Putin had met with the presidents of Belarus and Kazakhstan to discuss ways to end the fighting in Ukraine. However, comments from NATO chief Rasmussen indicated that the organization would stand by Ukraine if […]
Litecoin Technical Analysis (LTC/USD): Litecoin hits 1-month low, threatening 2014 levels
By Leon Pick on August 7, 2014 in Trading
Litecoin (LTC/USD) indeed broke the $7 mark threatened yesterday, falling to as low as $6.80 on BTC-e. It has since climbed back to $7.00, a key psychological level during what has been a seemingly unending decline since February. With today’s low, it […]
The Most-Anticipated Stock Market CrashStock-Markets / Financial CrashAug 06, 2014 – 07:40 PM GMTBy: John_RubinoUS equities have been going up for so long that most investors — especially those who were only recently enticed into the casino by the apparently easy money on offer — have trouble remembering the last time it was possible to lose big in stocks.Along the […]
Poland’s Prime Minister increased its rhetoric on Russia’s continued buildup of military forces on the Ukraine border. He suggested that Russia is planning to invade under the guise of a peacekeeping mission to prevent further humanitarian violations, or at least pressure Ukraine’s government into ceasing its offensive in the eastern part of the country. This kept European equities weak overnight […]
US equities have been going up for so long that most investors — especially those who were only recently enticed into the casino by the apparently easy money on offer — have trouble remembering the last time it was possible to lose big in stocks.Along the way, a whole slew of indices and indicators have drifted into their historical danger […]
Algorithmic Trading System Has Signaled US Stock Market Has Reached a Critical Turning PointBy: Chris Vermeulen | Tue, Aug 5, 2014SharePrintEmailThe past two years we see the stock market steadily climb with low volatility. All investors and traders have had to do is simply buy the pullbacks within the stock market and riding the market to new highs. While this […]
We discuss examples of discovery through sentiment mining, current trends, innovative applications, important soft skills, and more. By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol, Aug 5, 2014.Vita Markman is currently employed as a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, where she works on various natural language processing applications such as performing sentiment analysis of customer feedback and extracting relevant information from job postings. Before joining […]
The Fed-Induced Stock Market EPS Fairy TaleStock-Markets / Corporate EarningsAug 04, 2014 – 10:50 PM GMTBy: Michael_PentoThe stock market has advanced sharply over the past five years no matter what geopolitical situation has blown up or how tenuous the economic foundation may be. This is because Investors have simply been forced to throw money at the market with a reckless […]
