Home » Best Practices, Big Data, Featured, Surveillance, TwitterThe Power of Social Sentiment: Recent Icahn tweet drives investor behaviorBy John Schoeler16 June 2014No CommentOur good friends and partners at Finmaven posted an excellent blog post last week regarding a tweet that was published on Friday. June 6 from high profile activist Carl Icahn disclosing his 9% position in Family Dollar. […]
Q4 Surveillance uses big data to provide real-time investor sentiment monitoring and alerts.LAS VEGAS – Q4 Web Systems (Q4), the leading provider of IR websites, social media and mobile solutions for public companies, today launched Q4 Surveillance, a new big data investor sentiment, monitoring and alerting product designed to provide Investor Relations teams the tools and information they require to […]
The head of the SEC, Mary Jo White, has announced a broad set of new initiatives and proposed regulations that are aimed at giving the agency a tighter grip on the high-frequency trading (HFT) firms which have come to dominate daily activity on the stock market. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, if the new rules are passed, HFT […]
Most biotech stocks can move rapidly, and that’s one of the reasons why a lot of traders like them.
Yes, the stocks can certainly be volatile, but when the gains come, they tend to come in bunches.
The trick can be knowing how to identify when one of those “bunches” may be coming.
A biotech stock that may be triggering a run on […]
Bitcoin Trading (BTC/USD) Technical Analysis, June 1: An 11-week high By Leon Pick on June 1, 2014 in Trading BTC/USD is trading at its highest level since mid-March. At that time, Bitcoin was caught in an unsettled period sandwiched between the MtGox collapse and the latest round of crackdowns in China. With those events receding in the rear-view mirror, the […]
It isn’t a surprise to most that the biotech names have had a rough start to the year.
Really, March was pretty bad.
However, with the market recovering as of late, many of the beaten up biotech stocks have rebounded somewhat. A lot of analysts believe the rebound will continue.
As an investor, if you agree with those analysts, then it certainly wouldn’t […]
I gave a talk to the invitation-only NYC CTO Club a couple of weeks ago about my fears about big data modeling, namely:that big data modeling is discriminatory,
that big data modeling increases inequality, and
that big data modeling threatens democracy.
I had three things on my “to do” list for the audience of senior technologists, namely:test internal, proprietary models for discrimination,
help regulators like the CFPB develop […]
Most tech stocks haven’t been in vogue lately, especially some of the big names like Netflix, Amazon and Google.
However, one big tech name has been bucking the tech down trend over the last few months, and that’s Oracle.
Although Oracle isn’t the best trading stock, it certainly is on a lot of investors list of “to-dos”.
The company: Oracle Corporation
Ticker Symbol: (NYSE: ORCL)
Sector: Technology
Industry: Application Software
Oracle […]
…there are vastly more possible comparisons than there are data points to compare. Without careful analysis, the ratio of genuine patterns to spurious patterns – of signal to noise – quickly tends to zero.Tim Harford in the Financial Times has a great article called Big data: are we making a big mistake?.Share this:EmailFacebookGoogleGoogle+Matt MullenwegLike this:Like Loading…
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