Using Twitter Sentiment for Intraday Signals

This is a cross-post from Trade The Sentiment. Originally published as Using Twitter Sentiment for Intraday Signals. While most of my research on Twitter Sentiment has been for use on larger time-frames (Daily, Weekly, etc), I’ve been very curious about using sentiment for intraday signals. I finally found some time to hack together a script that would look … Read more

Can Twitter Sentiment be used to generate buy / sell signals?

This is a cross-post from TradeTheSentiment.com Before we get started…its VERY easy to look back and say “yes…that would have been a buy signal”.  If the market worked with hindsight, we’d all be millionaires. For this approach, I’m going to use the thought that the masses are ‘wrong’.  That is…when Sentiment gets extremely bearish or … Read more

Comparing Market Sentiment – Twitter vs the “Professionals”

If you’ve been following me for more than a few months, you probably know that I’m researching Twitter Sentiment related to the market for my doctoral dissertation. A few previous posts on the topic: Using Twitter Sentiment for predicting stock price movement Will Twitter make you a better investor? Understanding Twitter Sentiment for Investing Decisions … Read more

Using Twitter Sentiment for predicting stock price movement

I just finished giving a presentation titled “Will Twitter Make you a better investor?”…and like I always do with these presentations, I recorded one of my rehearsal’s to share. In this presentation, I provide an overview of my research into using twitter sentiment and message volume as inputs into modeling stock price movements. A quick … Read more

Will Twitter make you a better investor?

My paper, titled Will Twitter Make You a Better Investor? A Look at Sentiment, User Reputation and their effect on the Stock Market, has been published in the Conference Proceedings for the Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS) 2012 Conference. You can grab a copy of the PDF here: Will Twitter Make You a Better Investor? A Look at … Read more