Over the last three years, Discord has tripled its number of active users from 56 million in 2019 to 150 million in 2022. But the social platform headquartered in San Francisco does not only boast a “explosive popularity” (TechCrunch). It is also one of the key platforms for financial debates. Both aspects together make the […]
International financial markets are always on the move. Currently, it is a bundle of threatening news that causes unrest. These include the war against Ukraine, soaring energy prices in particular, a return to inflation rates that many experts did not think possible, a readjustment of the monetary policy of leading central banks, economies weakened by […]
Wie erfolgreich soziale Medien bei der Entfesselung von Emotionen und in der Folge auch von Investitionen sein können, zeigten im Januar 2021 die Ereignisse rund um die Aktien des Videospielehändlers GameStop Corp. aus Dallas und anderer sogenannter Meme Stocks. Darunter versteht man Wertpapiere, die ihre Popularität v.a. sozialen Medien verdanken. Aber was ist der Schlüssel […]
Since its first introduction by Nakamoto (2008), Bitcoin has grown to become the lead- ing peer-to-peer blockchain-based cryptocurrency in the world by market capitalisation. With the increasing amount of capital invested in Bitcoin, the effort to predict the price of the currency increased as well (Corbet, Lucey, Urquhart, & Yarovaya, 2019). Due to the novelty […]
Most people will not hesitate to put an equation sign between Social media success and business success. After all, a big social media footprint seems to be a key requirement for the success of the business as a whole. In what follows, we challenge this notion on the basis of data sourced by Stockpulse. Informed […]
This white paper discusses the implementation of sentiment analysis into the production of foreign exchange trading strategies. Statistical significance testing for financial performance measures is used to compare generic foreign exchange strategies against sentiment analysis-strategies generated by Stockpulse. The strategy generated by Stockpulse outperform the generic strategies across all presented performance measures. Request Paper
Stockpulse’s exceptional Surveillance tool has uncovered unique information from social media data that indicates earlier problems at the highest management of Celsius Network. The analysis conducted using our data shows disturbing practices from Celsius’s management towards its clients. We analyzed social media activity between March and May and found clusters of issues experienced by retail […]
Students from multiple universities conducted an interesting joint study. It sheds light on how pump and dump schemes evolved to new places such as social media and other web-based communication channels to influence the retail investor community. Monitoring social media is a significant factor. It is sometimes hardly addressed compared to other relevant issues for […]
During the course of the past few months we were intensively looking into the application of Deep Learning on our emotional data for financial markets. Initial results of our research work are beyond everything we have seen so far. It is a combination of our experience gathered during the past 10 years of applying large […]