The proof of the pudding….A hedge fund that uses Twitter data to drive its trading strategy returned 1.85% in its first month of trading, according to an investor in the fund, in the first sign that social media data can be used successfully to enhance electronic trading techniques, according to an efinancial news report.
Derwent Capital, which finished its first month of trading at the end of July, beat the S&P 500 which fell 2.2% in July, while the average hedge fund made 0.76%, according to Hedge Fund Research.
The fund, which declined to comment, uses sentiment data mined from millions of Twitter messages, or ‘tweets’, to predict market movements. The strategy is based on research published by the University of Manchester and Indiana University in October which demonstrated that the number of emotional words on Twitter could be used to predict daily moves in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Find out more at http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2011-08-15/twitter-derwent-capital-hedge-fund
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