Wall Street could be monitoring your social media communication to develop trade ideas. Much like quantitative traders look at market pricing data to develop trading algorithms, hedge funds are now looking at social media traffic As Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters terminals add to their terminals filtered feeds from Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR), a group of Twitter data miners has emerged that provide analytic measurement and advice to assist hedge funds in making trades, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Currently select larger quantitative funds are purchasing the data from the likes of Hedge Chatter, Eagle Alpha, Market Prophit and Filmmaven. These…
Twitter Increasingly Used By Hedge Funds For Trading Clues
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.