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One can easily place bets on the volatility of a stock. If you expect it to move, but you don't know which direction, that is tradeable knowledge.
Tweets seem to have an impact of around 1-3% lasting hours to days. Many (most?) stocks have too high implied volatility to begin with for straddling by tweet to be a productive strategy.
(I know this is just for fun, but...) I believe this won't work because of high-frequency trading. By the few seconds this latent python script will take to get the tweet, analyze the tweet, and execute a trade, high-speed bots will have already done something similar to a price level they decided was appropriate using sophisticated algorithms. So basically, instead of this bot betting that Trump's tweets will change…
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On most of your points we are not too far apart, but I really have to take issue with this: > Like if the event in question was basketball camps and you put your child in "Basketball for Short & Slow People". All the female-only events have a real taint of keeping out the strong performers so the weak can win too. An all-girl introductory coding camp is like a baksetball camp for "short & slow" players? Girls are wea…
>Girls are weak when it comes to software and boys are strong? That's precisely what you are implying by supporting coding camps "for girls"! Any time you create an event restricted to some group unrelated to skill level, it makes it sound like something inherent to the group makes their abilities different. Okay: Python for beginners Python for intermediate users Python for data scientists Not okay: Python for girls…
Not at all. That is completely you bringing your prejudices into the equation.
Do gyms have womens-only sections because women are not as good as men at going to the gym?! No, it's about comfort and an alternative to a male-dominated environment.
If girls exposed to coding through camps end up enjoying it and going on to CS in school, balancing out the classrooms (which will naturally lead to more balance without the needs for exclusionary events), that's not a bad thing IMHO and there is no harm done. This is just something to try and kickstart momentum away from the status quo of the huge imbalance there is.
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On most of your points we are not too far apart, but I really have to take issue with this: > Like if the event in question was basketball camps and you put your child in "Basketball for Short & Slow People". All the female-only events have a real taint of keeping out the strong performers so the weak can win too. An all-girl introductory coding camp is like a baksetball camp for "short & slow" players? Girls are wea…
>Girls are weak when it comes to software and boys are strong? That's precisely what you are implying by supporting coding camps "for girls"! Any time you create an event restricted to some group unrelated to skill level, it makes it sound like something inherent to the group makes their abilities different. Okay: Python for beginners Python for intermediate users Python for data scientists Not okay: Python for girls…
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No, you just missed the point. You're exactly describing the difference between explicit and systemic discrimination. I will agree that they are "massively" different, because the systemic version has had an effect that is orders of magnitude greater than the explicit/exclusionary Girls-who-code type of camp. There are no explicitly sexist rules encoded in software professions, so why are those professions predominan…
>so why are those professions predominantly occupied by men Same tired old crap. The profession is predominantly occupied by men because that's the ratio of males/females in graduating classes. You can have all of the male-hating programming clubs you want, but trying to solve some perceived systematic discrimination of an entire profession that reflects the student supply is ignorant sexism. I applaud anyone who has…
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From the admittedly small data set of 6 tweets, it looks like the answer is "no" with one exception where the market took over an hour to react. I'm curious why the Ford lag time was so different.
Because Ford's actions had been expected/known for some time. Trump literally had nothing to do with it. You don't just spin up factories like an EC2 instance. His other tweets regarding other companies were all future-tense, and companies he is in a position to bully. Except for Nordstrom, of course.
What would be needed? A line? Programmable robots? Inputs and outputs?
Interesting idea.
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>Girls are weak when it comes to software and boys are strong? That's precisely what you are implying by supporting coding camps "for girls"! Any time you create an event restricted to some group unrelated to skill level, it makes it sound like something inherent to the group makes their abilities different. Okay: Python for beginners Python for intermediate users Python for data scientists Not okay: Python for girls…
> Any time you create an event restricted to some group unrelated to skill level, it makes it sound like something inherent to the group makes their abilities different Not at all. That is completely you bringing your prejudices into the equation. Do gyms have womens-only sections because women are not as good as men at going to the gym?! No, it's about comfort and an alternative to a male-dominated environment. If g…
Says the person advocating for special women's-only classes, implying they are not capable of participating in mixed gender environments.
>that's not a bad thing IMHO and there is no harm done.
Except to the kids that were refused from entering the class due to their gender. They were deprived of whatever the teacher and their would-be peers had to offer.
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> Any time you create an event restricted to some group unrelated to skill level, it makes it sound like something inherent to the group makes their abilities different Not at all. That is completely you bringing your prejudices into the equation. Do gyms have womens-only sections because women are not as good as men at going to the gym?! No, it's about comfort and an alternative to a male-dominated environment. If g…
>That is completely you bringing your prejudices into the equation Says the person advocating for special women's-only classes, implying they are not capable of participating in mixed gender environments. >that's not a bad thing IMHO and there is no harm done. Except to the kids that were refused from entering the class due to their gender. They were deprived of whatever the teacher and their would-be peers had to of…
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Tweets seem to have an impact of around 1-3% lasting hours to days. Many (most?) stocks have too high implied volatility to begin with for straddling by tweet to be a productive strategy.
Even as an ensemble?
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Because Ford's actions had been expected/known for some time. Trump literally had nothing to do with it. You don't just spin up factories like an EC2 instance. His other tweets regarding other companies were all future-tense, and companies he is in a position to bully. Except for Nordstrom, of course.
Hrrm... what if you COULD spin up factories like an EC2 instance. What would be needed? A line? Programmable robots? Inputs and outputs? Interesting idea.