Don’t Get Ruined by These 10 Popular Stock Market Investment Myths Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 29, 2014 – 05:24 PM GMTBy: EWI
Interest rates, oil prices, earnings, GDP, wars, terrorist attacks, inflation, monetary policy, etc. — NONE have a reliable effect on the stock market
You may remember that during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, […]
An introduction to measuring and managing online sentimentLove. Hate. Frustration. Happiness. Security. Excitement. Satisfaction. Desire. Apprehension. Impatience.Just a small selection of common emotions that we feel pretty much every day, as we go about our lives. Many of these emotions are felt and experienced as we interact with hundreds of brands throughout the day. Perhaps it’s the steaming hot coffee and service of Starbucks in the morning, making you feel […]
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 […]
Big Data and the mindset that comes with it will have a fundamental impact on how pharmaceutical research will be conducted in the future, writes Peter Tormay.Innovation is the corner stone of the pharmaceutical industry. Unfortunately, the industry as a whole is not very good at it. For the last two decades the approval of NME’s has been largely flat […]
The number of Google searches related to business and politics can help predict falls in the stock market, researchers at the University of Warwick, in England, say.Scientists have recently begun investigating what people look for on Google and Wikipedia to help forecast the future. For instance, prior research has shown the rate at which people look up information about the […]
Jason Voss, CFAAt the 67th CFA Institute Annual Conference in Seattle, Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight, delivered an important message to financial professionals about the appropriate uses and definite limitations of big data that was well worth its weight in gold.You would have to have been asleep for the last half-decade to not know that the business world, and consequently its […]
My 10 Favorite Technical Analysis BooksPosted by JC Parets
on April 29th, 2014
Share on StockTwitsIt feels like almost every day someone asks me what books I recommend reading if they’re trying to learn more about Technical Analysis. I figured I should just make a list and publish it for everyone to see.So here you go:Technical […]
Big Data…Big Deal? Maybe, if Used with Caution.
Posted by David on 27 April 2014, 11:23 amAs we have witnessed, the term “big data” has been thrusted onto the zeitgeist in the past several years, however, when one pushes beyond the hype, there seems to be little substance there. We’ve always had “data” so what so unique about it this time? Yes, we […]
I am excited to be presenting in New York at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium. My talk is titled, “Measure and Predict: Lessons in Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty.” Customer satisfaction and loyalty are important variables in today’s business world. Senior executives rely on measures of these variables to make better decisions to help them market to, sell to and service their customers.
Businesses have access to droves […]
