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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 […]

That's Two Takeovers in a Week!

June 22, 2016

Social media beats the mainstream media on a regular basis. Last week social media beat the news wire in reporting the MSFT acquisition of LNKD (blog post below) and Tuesday Twitter broke SCTY being acquired by TSLA. This information is not theoretical - it is actionable data in our feed! Tesla Motors lit up Twitter, […]

Twitter Leads News For MSFT, LNKD Acquisition

June 13, 2016

As is the case with most corporate events now, MSFT buying LNKD broke on Twitter first. The very first mention of this is any news article was at 7:38 AM (CDT) but Social Market Analytics (SMA) detected this 7 minutes ahead at 7:31. SMA’s patented algorithm digests, filters and evaluates Tweets in real time. The […]

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 […]

2015 In Review

January 4, 2016

Wow, what a ride 2015 was with the S&P 500 closing slightly down for the year. As we head into 2016 are you going to continue to look at the same factors as everyone else or maybe try something new? Below are the returns for stocks with significantly positive and negative pre-market open S-Scores. […]

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, […]

Social Topic Conversations: What You Want, When You Want It, How You Want It

June 8, 2015

SMA is an analytics company with unique IP for filtering and quantification of social media. SMA to date has been primarily focused on the capital markets given our extensive knowledge of this industry. On deck for us is the natural expansion of our capabilities to a "Topic Model" format. Right now, we use our proprietary […]

Social Media and Investing for a New Generation

May 5, 2015

By Kim Gits, CFO of Social Market Analytics Are you prepared for the shift in attitudes and expectations of the next generation of investors? What is the next step for social media use in the capital markets? How far will you go in implementing a social strategy to retain/attract investors? Once in house, how will you communicate […]

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