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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by avip on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:43PM (#17544402)
Not necessarily people.
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by Zombieball on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:59PM (#17545064)
Precisely. I wouldn’t doubt there are algorithms that take into account general tone of tweets and news posts (using some sort of NLP) into a trading decision.
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by smolder on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:10PM (#17545160)
Yes, this is done in practice and is a little scary because of its potential as a means of manipulating automated trading. On the other hand the markets can be manipulated already via news read by humans...
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by econochoice on Monday July 16, 2018 @09:08PM (#17546521)
Have worked on one such project, can confirm that these exist.
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