Winning Portfolio will help you gauge the market sentiment on all US stocks based on Twitter and other SNS in a visually stunning and practically useful way.
We developed a sentiment analysis engine, which processes all tweets (and later other SNS postings) and summarizes the market sentiment for each stock in a single number. Using sophisticated machine learning techniques, we can easily visualize and quantify how other investors feel about the stock. In a competitive investment world, any informational edge helps. This will help you make better trading and investment decisions.
How does it really work? We will show you the result from our preliminary system. On 10/02, Apple stock price looked like this.
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Now the sentiment index from our proprietary system was
The market sentiment obviously tracks the stock price movement very well. Now this is only the beginning. Researchers around the world have shown some promise in using sentiment measures to predict future stock price movements. You can think of many other applications. You can use it to identify days when sentiment around a stock varies strongly. You can use it to look into why a stock price moved more than you expected.
The sentiment index for all US stocks will be available in our web/mobile apps. We will help you chart the index along with the stock price and other information like volume. We will also provide an API access to the index data, which should make it easy to access and incorporate this exciting new signal into your trading/investment process.
Brought to you by the Winning Portfolio Team.
Jhe Yun, PhD, Head of Research
Yoon Hwang, CTO
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