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Re:Ten Weeks with Y Combinator’s Startup School by raharley0 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:10PM (#14598134)
Your MVP looks interesting. Is there evidence that NPS and other such metrics actually correlate to the price of a stock? What differentiates you from other trend analysis stock pick sites?
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Re:Ten Weeks with Y Combinator’s Startup School by lettergram on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:19PM (#14598221)
We have done quite a bit of analysis.

NPS and sentiment analysis is pretty good for elections and predicting social events. Sentiment analysis (or what we call Expert Opinion) is slightly better for predicting stock and crypto movement(s).

We invested last year using our stock advisor:

http://i.imgur.com/U8qi6tm.png

And this year into crypto currencies:

http://imgur.com/C5CL4MH

The real trick, is how we improve signal to noise ratio.

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Re:Ten Weeks with Y Combinator’s Startup School by raharley0 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:24PM (#14598263)
Wow, impressive, if you don't get reversion to the mean of course... Begs the question, if the advisor/algorithms are hot and you have very neat proprietary tech, why not just go the route of Renaissance:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renai...

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