Friday, September 28, 2012

Social media trading is gaining ground

Social media trading is gaining ground: "This 'event-detection', as it is often called, requires a powerful analytics engine which detects abnormal signals and then analyses them combined with contextual data, both historical and concurrent, to decide whether the chatter is meaningful or simply noise.

Its biggest – and not insignificant – claim to fame, for example, was breaking the news of Osama bin Laden's death to its client-base 20 minutes before the major media outlets , thereby offering any clients trading at the time a potentially huge information advantage"

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Super Mario’s Big Bluff- The ECB 'Bull" Out !!

Super Mario’s Big Bluff: "So the ECB is not actually announcing a massive new bond-buying program. Instead it’s just announced that it’s willing to provide more money as long as EU nations hand over their fiscal sovereignty and implement austerity measures.

This is nothing new. In fact, this has been the exact same program that the ECB’s had in place ever since the EU Crisis began in 2010. "

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