Various New TweetTrader Features for Better Information and a Better User Experience

As you may have noticed, there is a new button on tweettrader.net:

Sign in with Twitter. Yes, you are right, it is now possible to log in with your Twitter account to customize your TweetTrader experience.

You now can:
• Follow other users to build your own social network
• Create your own dashboard
• Create a portfolio of favorite stocks you are tracking
• Manage your profile

With this latest release, you have many more options to filter the information stream of TweetTrader: you can specifically read the messages of users you follow, or only messages that discuss stocks from your portfolio.

Personal Livestream

Your portfolio received its own aggregated sentiment view, and shows sentiment change and price prediction in one, single view.

Portfolio Overview

In the dashboard, right after logging, we show you tops and flops: your portfolio stocks that showed the largest sentiment change.

Tops and Flows

To make it easier to identify users you might be interested in following, every user tweeting stock related messages automatically receives a profile that shows key user information, which stocks the user is tweeting about, whether the user's message are more bullish or more bearish compared to the overall average as well as the user's prediction accuracy.

User profile

Please let us know what you think about the changes ... and please keep spreading the word!

TweetTrader.net featured on Reuters Insider TV

TweetTrader.net was recently featured on Reuters Insider, a new TV experience from Reuters and 150+ trusted content partners and targeted specifically at financial professionals.

You can watch the interview and related broadcasts featuring TweetTrader.net here.

TweetTrader on Air

TweetTrader.net was recently featured in a radio report on the German network of Bayerischer Rundfunk. You can listen to it here.

Worldwide TweetTrader.net press coverage

A TweetTrader.net press release has recently generated quite some buzz in the international press.

Twitter predicts future of stocks  

Twitter may not yet have found a way to make money for itself but it is doing a good job of generating cash for its users, research suggests. Read more.

Twitter predicts performance of individual stocks

The information in tweets captured market movements fairly quickly and strong buy signals on Twitter are followed by abnormal returns from that stock the following day. Read more.

All Atwitter With Investment Tips

Just how valuable is a tweet? Some people believe that by harnessing and analyzing the flow from all tweets, they will be able to predict future stock prices. That would be valuable indeed. A graduate student at the Technische Universität München, has launched TweetTrader.net, a Website that uses tweets to size up market sentiment on particular stocks. Read more.

The link between tweets and stock market

Wealth-management companies take note: A team in Germany has found that investors following stock-market tweets showed average returns of 15 per cent. And now this crowd knowledge can be tapped by any investor with a Twitter account. Read more.

Twitter Now a Source for Bernie Madoff-ish Investment Returns

Following Twitter is almost as good as taking dedicated analysts' advice when it comes to earning profits. Read more. 

Twitter predicts performance of individual stocks

Now economists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have launched a website that predicts individual stock trends based on Twitter chatter. Read more.

Twitter analysis predicts stock prices a day ahead

Playing the stock market just got a little easier, thanks to economists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) who have developed a website that predicts individual stock trends. Read more.

Who needs a broker? Twitter comment analysis predicts great investments

German economists who used machine intelligence to analyze tweets about stocks say the advice shared among Twitter members can accurately predicts what the market will do a day ahead of time. Read more.  

Next to these examples, coverage included countries around the world including Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Argentina, Chile, and many more.

New TweetTrader Features: Market Sentiment and Top Stocks

The latest release of TweetTrader.net offers increased performance and two great new features: First, an overview of the overall market sentiment (visible on the homepage) and, second, a list of tops and flops in terms of sentiment (you find a ranking of the 5 stocks with the most drastic up and down changes in terms of sentiment on the homepage and more details under Top Stocks).

TweetTrader Sentiment Reflecting News on Steve Jobs' Leave from Apple

On January 17th, 2011, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking leave of absence from the company's day-to-day operations because of a medical condition, according to a letter Jobs sent to Apple employees. As a result, the stock has plummeted. The case is a good example of how TweetTrader.net instantly reflects market developments, often even before it hits major news wires. As you can see, TweetTrader.net Sentiment on $AAPL was down almost 30% and people were talking mostly about issues related to Corporate Governance (which, according to our research, is largely CEO-related) and Operations.

What Topics are Stock Microbloggers talking about?

We have investigated which topics are on the minds of stock microbloggers. We have classified thousands of tweets into the following news or event categories: Corporate Governance, Financial Issues, Operations, Restructuring Issues, Legal Issues, and Technical Trading. In addition, to allow for more granular analysis, we have defined subcategories for which we found a substantial number of messages among our data set (e.g., stock-related vs. market-related technical trading signals).

The table below provides an overview of the event categories and sample messages assigned to the respective class. It shows that technical trading signals are the most frequently mentioned event category with references in almost one third of all messages (34.0%), among which stock-related signals make up the vast majority (28.2%). Next are comments regarding company operations (20.3%), especially product development (9.4%), operational performance (4.2%) and marketing (4.2%). Financial issues come third as an event category (13.3%) with a majority of messages dedicated to the discussion of earnings results (6.9%). Restructuring issues (6.1%), Legal Issues (3.5%) and topics related to Corporate Governance (3.3%) are mentioned less frequently. The distribution of topics shows some interesting differences to professionally edited newspapers and confirms that stock microblogs provide information "off the beaten track".

You find the current share of topics for each stock in real-time on the TweetTrader Scoreboard:

 

Proudly Presenting TweetTrader.net

We are proud to present the first public beta version of TweetTrader.net

The site is still in a very early stage of development and we are working hard to add more features to help you "make $ense of it all". Check out our website at http://tweettrader.net, become a fan on Facebook and a follower on Twitter and, of course, check back regularly to stay updated on new features and developments