David Rubin, Bloomberg
"David Rubin (Lo) (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON)" <drubin19@bloomberg.net>
Finalised as Hashtag-FollowTheMarket
- FollowMyFund– Twitter-Based Visualisations and Alerts for Investors
Twitter has famously been first to break many major news stories, so why is its data not often considered valuable by people in finance? Perhaps the data is not deemed reliable or presented in a familiar way? Surely, coupling improved analysis and filtering of Tweets with market data could provide a novel and useful tool for financial decision-makers. You will create a dashboard for Investors to monitor their portfolios, overlaying sentiment gathered from Twitter data. Is a particular company in a fund trending positively or perhaps not being tweeted about at all? To make the tool more sophisticated you will also create a system for configuring alerts about these companies based on the information you derive from Tweets as well as Market Data such as stock prices or volumes traded, helping spot the next market mover.
Alternative proposal
Were you around when a group built the TweetGuv system? Perhaps we could do something similar with financial commentators who have Twitter feeds, looking for evidence that they are using the same (or different) sources?
