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Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by karangoeluw on Friday February 10, 2017 @07:46AM (#13614989)
I actually did some basic analysis of this recently - can you really make money in the stock market trading on Trump's tweets. https://medium.com/karan/can-you-really-make-money-when-real...

My answer was maybe but I'd rather not put my money at the mercy of a lunatic.

Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by throwaway2048 on Friday February 10, 2017 @10:55AM (#13616197)
Your entire economic system is at the mercy of said lunatic.
Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by fnovd on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:10AM (#13616361)
As we've seen recently, the power of the POTUS is not unchecked.
Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by ben010783 on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:20AM (#13616450)
We've seen recently that it can be checked. Our hope is that those that with the ability to check him continue to do so.
Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by r00fus on Friday February 10, 2017 @01:49PM (#13617825)
Trump is a symptom not the cause. Though this symptom could be highly problematic.

Dark money influencing elections = wild man at the tiller.

Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by mcherm on Friday February 10, 2017 @12:55PM (#13617366)
Yet another thing I'd rather not have.
Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by tedmiston on Friday February 10, 2017 @08:12AM (#13615122)
From the admittedly small data set of 6 tweets, it looks like the answer is "no" with one exception where the market took over an hour to react. I'm curious why the Ford lag time was so different.
Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by justinlaster on Friday February 10, 2017 @09:35AM (#13615604)
Because Ford's actions had been expected/known for some time. Trump literally had nothing to do with it. You don't just spin up factories like an EC2 instance.

His other tweets regarding other companies were all future-tense, and companies he is in a position to bully. Except for Nordstrom, of course.

Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by blister on Saturday February 11, 2017 @09:29AM (#13622751)
Hrrm... what if you COULD spin up factories like an EC2 instance.

What would be needed? A line? Programmable robots? Inputs and outputs?

Interesting idea.

Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by hubrix on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:59AM (#13633601)
I'd fund that
Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets by deelowe on Friday February 10, 2017 @09:51AM (#13615718)
Your answer according to the article actually appears to be "no."