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Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

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

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Post by phalangion »

espadrine wrote: post #11
chis wrote: post #3

Pretty clever and effective message. I'd put money on this being shared by all my friends on Facebook in a few days. Trump's last couple tweets have backfired and actually increased his targets' stock price though. You might have to flip the algorithm around if this continues.

I read it as the stock market betting on the constitution. Mr Trump is not allowed to impact Nordstrom negatively for his daughter's sake. But most of the other tweets are about cases where he could harm them as POTUS.

If he can't do anything, why would the stock change at all?

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

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Post by duozerk »

etatoby wrote: post #35
rhaps0dy wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you have this backwards. If Trump tweets a negative sentiment, the bot buys from the company. If everyone did that, the price would go up - just the opposite of the current effect!

I know very little of the stock market, but shouldn't the bot buy shares when he tweets positive comments? Because that's when the stock is expected to rise and you can sell it later for a profit.

Indeed, but the comment you're responding to was tongue-in-cheek, specifically suggesting that Trump being positive of a stock is a negative indicator for it.

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

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Post by espadrine »

phalangion wrote: post #41
espadrine wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read it as the stock market betting on the constitution. Mr Trump is not allowed to impact Nordstrom negatively for his daughter's sake. But most of the other tweets are about cases where he could harm them as POTUS.

If he can't do anything, why would the stock change at all?

Speculation again: it highlighted that Nordstrom would not be pressured into a decision that would yield poorer results.

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

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Post by k2xl »

ISL wrote: post #36
xuki wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He tweeted negatively about Nordstrom, stock went up. We might be onto something here...

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.

How?

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

Gupie wrote: post #20

It would work better is you knew in advance what Trump is going to tweet, not possible of course unless you work for twitter or for Trump?!

HFT it - get a server near in network terms to the Twitter servers that handle Trumps tweets; use the millisecond advantage to buy ahead of the other bots, ...

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

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Post by mc42 »

grif-fin wrote: post #32
martin-adams wrote: post #30

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.

Good idea! Where to begin? Shall we go for refugee charity?

I would say to organizations that directly support people, be it Direct Relief, The ACLU, or Charity: water.

Other good options are FIRST, Girls Who Code, and The Geek Group, all orgs that focus on STEM Education and getting people into the STEM fields.

Just to name a few groups to directly counterbalance his behavior.

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

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Post by runholm »

nodesocket wrote: post #17

Novel project, but not useful. Trump tweeted thanks to Intel on Feb 8th which was a super positive tweet. Since then $INTC is down about 2.6%.

It doesn't need to be right every time, it needs to beat the market. I am not saying that I know that it does beat the market, but it would be interesting to know if it does.

All you have provided is proof that it is sometimes wrong, which is not surprising at all.

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