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Introducing the Social Market Analytics (SMA) 50 Long Index

February 20, 2018

Social Market Analytics has been creating security level sentiment metrics for six years. As we build an out-of-sample history we are able to build longer holding period indexes. I have blogged about longer term factors before, this is the most comprehensive portfolio strategy built using sentiment level data. This blog will discuss the application of […]

Decile Spreads for Twitter & StockTwits

March 10, 2017

I explore decile groupings based on S-Scores, and plot cumulative subsequent returns.

2016 In Review

January 23, 2017

Last year was a good year for SMA data. High sentiment securities outperformed and low sentiment securities underperformed with good Sharpe’s and Sortino's. The below tables contain returns and Sharpe/Sortino ratios for the full history of Social Market Analytics S-Factor data. Correlations to standard factors continue to be near zero. I'm sure our data […]

Weekly, Monthly Quarterly Re-balance

January 9, 2017

As we move into a new year Social Market Analytics (SMA) has acquired five years of out-of-sample data. This real history has enabled us to build signals for longer holding periods. In this blog we will explore the use of SMA data for weekly, monthly and quarterly holding periods. Portfolio managers often re-select securities […]

SMA Predicts Brexit Two Weeks Before The Vote

June 24, 2016

People seem surprised that Britain voted to exit the EU. We at SMA with our partners the CBOE are not nearly as surprised as everyone else. Russell Rhoads from the CBOE has been blogging and Tweeting with SMA data for two weeks that it looks like the Brexit is going to happen. Let’s look at […]

Twitter Sentiment and Longer Holding Periods

April 20, 2016

Signals derived from Twitter data have typically been viewed as shorter term signals. There are a number of reasons for this. One reason is the lack of out of sample data to back test trading systems on. At SMA we now have nearly four and a half years of sentiment metrics to use in the creation […]

Long/Short Research on Russell 1000 Stocks

December 8, 2015

People ask about the persistence of SMA sentiment signals over time. The signal length is dependent on the S-Factor used. S-Mean for example represents a 20 day look back period and is generally used as a longer term signal. We looked at a theoretical strategy using a universe of the Russell 1000 and S-Factors: S-Score, […]

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