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Re:Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep L... by stcredzero on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @07:10PM (#17192687)
Weren't there some bots doing sentiment analysis on twitter? Also, these were discovered then exploited at one point to cause a rapid drop in the stock markets.
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Re:Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep L... by dx034 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @07:37AM (#17195551)
Sentiment analysis was a big topic and is still being used. But results are very specific. Most investors won't tweet while they're losing money so the short term information gain is small.

Where it can help is to determine the state of the economy. Same as with image recognition for satellite pictures (traffic patterns, footfall at stores), those indicators can give you a faster idea if something's going wrong with the economy than classical indicators. But I have yet to see an accurate one.

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Re:Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep L... by funfunfunction on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:07PM (#17193204)
Any links with more info would be appriciated :)
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