One well-accepted gauge of “fear” in the market is the VIX. The VIX typically rises in times of market distress as options traders hedge their positions, thereby causing an increase in the price of implied volatility – leading to a rise in the VIX. Popular ETFs such as VXX are constructed to replicate the value of the VIX. Hence, a […]
One well-accepted gauge of “fear” in the market is the VIX. The VIX typically rises in times of market distress as options traders hedge their positions, thereby causing an increase in the price of implied volatility – leading to a rise in the VIX. Popular ETFs such as VXX are constructed to replicate the value of the VIX. Hence, a […]
Stock Market Sentiment Playing Out perfectly…….Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 06, 2014 – 06:06 AM GMTBy: Jack_Steiman
Just a few weeks ago we were at 46% on the bull-bear spread. We had spent numerous weeks trading with a number above 40%, which is extremely rare and unusual. You know it can’t last, but you never know when it’s […]
Hispanic Social Sentiment Lags for Estado de la Unión (SOTU)
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Why is Spanish social media sentiment so down on the Estado de la […]
Understand the business value in “human data” – emotion, intent, connection – in online, social, and enterprise sources via text, speech, video and social-network analytics. Early bird till Jan 31 + KDnuggets discount.By Seth Grimes, Jan 28, 2014.
I wanted to make sure you know about the next Sentiment Analysis Symposium, March 5-6, 2014 in New York. The […]
Year to date, the S&P 500 has surrendered 3.6 percent after its staggering 29 percent gain in 2013. A few things have changed regarding market conditions in the new year: The Fed has decided to reduce the pace of its monthly bond purchases by $10 billion, a move that many market pros expect to continue […]
5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)**************************************************************************************************http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/*******************************************************BACKGROUND*******************************************************Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP), has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that made it possible […]
by Nick Charney
The Thinker by Darwin Bell
Last year I wrote a lengthy piece that argued that understanding the future of evidence based policy meant understanding the confluence of big data and social media (See: Big Data, Social Media and the Long Tail of Public Policy). Today I want to further qualify my statements, and refine my conceptual model to reflect […]
Sentiment, a social intelligence and engagement platform, has raised £1 million in Series A funding. The financing round was led by Elderstreet Investments, with participation from AIM-listed technology company Netcall. Sentiment also has appointed Elderstreet’s co-founder and managing director Michael Jackson as chairman of the board of directors.Press ReleaseSentiment, (the trading name of Macranet Ltd), the social intelligence and engagement platform, […]
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Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media
AIMS AND SCOPE
Although sentiment analysis and emotion detection have been trending topics since a while, not enough emphasis has been placed so far on social and expressive media. The latter, in particular, play a key role in applicative fields related to creativity, its expressions and […]
