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Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

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#101
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The fact that Trump has the vocabulary of an 8th grader makes this a lot easier.

From a brief search, most presidential candidates speak at around an 8th grade level. (Which makes sense. They need to appeal to a broad audience, and speaking at a higher level is usually counterproductive anyway unless you have a specialized audience.) Trump's speaking level is more like 3rd or 4th grade.

Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

#102

I actually did some basic analysis of this recently - can you really make money in the stock market trading on Trump's tweets. https://medium.com/karan/can-you-really-make-money-when-real... My answer was maybe but I'd rather not put my money at the mercy of a lunatic.

Your entire economic system is at the mercy of said lunatic.

As we've seen recently, the power of the POTUS is not unchecked.

Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

#103
post #102

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Your entire economic system is at the mercy of said lunatic.

As we've seen recently, the power of the POTUS is not unchecked.

We've seen recently that it can be checked. Our hope is that those that with the ability to check him continue to do so.

Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

#104

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Can confirm. I've been running this bot for 8 minutes and currently have a $7.8 million short position against the fake NYT. SEE YOU IN COURT, @maxbbraun!

So, we should just invert the bots request. If Trump reacts negatively, the bot interprets that as a buy . And a positive Trump reaction should be a sell. Now your holding lots of Nordstrom and NYT, and riding the wave up. Congrats, your going to be a millionaire!

Instead of sentiment analysis directly maybe use a model to predict whether the stock is going to rise or fall.

Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

#105

This bot watches Donald Trump's tweets and waits for him to mention any publicly traded companies. When he does, it uses sentiment analysis to determine whether his opinions are positive or negative toward those companies. The bot then automatically executes trades on the relevant stocks according to the expected market reaction. OK, so what's the expected market reaction? If Trump hates your company, does that make…

Down on the immediate, up after some hours:

The article just mentions how it ended the day (UP), but it started by going DOWN quite a few % after Trump spoke against it:

http://fox6now.com/2017/02/09/nordstrom-stock-defies-preside...

Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

#107

I have been doing the opposite. Whenever Trump signs on executive order or signals an intention, I presume it will either fail or will end in bad results for the poor and middle class. Then, working as if that were true, I see if there are any stocks or ETFs that would benefit from that and buy some. I have been doing pretty good!

The market as a whole is going up. Are your seeing above market average returns?

Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

#108

This could make quite a fun experiment to see if it works. Crowdsource an investment of something like $10,000 and let it run for a year. At the end, donate all proceeds to charity.

Unless you consider giving money to the counter party on your losing trades as well as the brokerage to which you pay commissions to be charitable contributions, you would be better off just giving the 10k straight to a good cause.

Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

#109
post #26

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He's not the only one handing his Twitter account I'm sure.

Yes. Surely, he must have several other insane people helping him. I.e. that much insanity cannot physically be contained in a single human being.

Load-balanced insanity. Truly, we are living in the future.

Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

#110

How many times do we have to go over this? stocks are a random walk.

That may or may not be true, but it's irrelevant in this case. The bot is basically front-running the market, or trying to anyway, by trading directly on a stimulus that the market (potentially) takes time to internalize and react to.

If this worked, I'd expect the HF funds to start doing it too, and even faster, and then the advantage would be destroyed.

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