> How would having twitter integrated into your trading system help you in this instance?
(1) In this instance, I'm pretty sure I don't know how to solve the problem naively. It went onto a theoretically legit account. I would have to cross-correlate with a couple other sources of information. At any rate, it points out to me that I need to encode a 'reliability' measure of the information.
(2) Not really. I don't have the capital to operate at low-latency levels. My hypothesis is the obvious one: markets are emotional and I should be able to construct a predictor for certain industries based on emotions emitted on accounts & news snippets relating to those industries.
(1) In this instance, I'm pretty sure I don't know how to solve the problem naively. It went onto a theoretically legit account. I would have to cross-correlate with a couple other sources of information. At any rate, it points out to me that I need to encode a 'reliability' measure of the information.
(2) Not really. I don't have the capital to operate at low-latency levels. My hypothesis is the obvious one: markets are emotional and I should be able to construct a predictor for certain industries based on emotions emitted on accounts & news snippets relating to those industries.