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(this post was reblogged from interestingsnippets)
The emotional roller coaster captured on Twitter can predict the ups and downs of the stock market, a new study finds. Measuring how calm the Twitterverse is on a given day can foretell the direction of changes to the Dow Jones Industrial Average three days later with an accuracy of 86.7 percent
Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market | Wired Science | Wired.com (via interestingsnippets)
If we map more of these effects, can we counter them? Or alternatively, at what investment timeframe does the chatter/crowd-mentality effect have *valid* market meaning?
