The Week in Symbols at Stocktwits

It is fun to see how our community thinks about trading and investing.  We are attracting larger groups of futures and currency traders from looking at the charts and data.  Looking at it today, I am getting some new ideas on how to display the information next week.  Any ideas are welcome in the comments:

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      • Mark Essel says:

        Thanks Howard. You’ve got some good data being generated, great crowd sourced direction. I certainly smell some juicy value in that info stream.How are you guys thinking of tackling positive or negative mentions? Victus Media’s IMM (Intelligent Media Manager) needs to tackle the same problem. We get back entities, but I’d like to know if they were favorably or unfavorably mentioned. Even this plot gets me curious, buzz factor alone shows attention. A quick good or bad attention, buy or sell framework would be even more interesting. The collective knowledge in the stocktwits is what we’re after with data mining the stream.You could introduce a syntax to your users, they have caught on to $ and $$human tagged with symbology would make data gathering easier.good :)bad :( buy + sell – In lieu of introducing syntax/language you can do some groovy stuff with semantics but whatever utility is come up with will need some good old human testing to make sure it’s good enough to capture the pulse. Help me understand some of the terminology (resistance, support, etc). I understand up, down, dropping, rising, hot, cool. How do you avoid bots noising up your stream?ps this blog could use an ad widget personalized to my tweets. If only there was such an easy to snag gadget. Up for fundraising and trying it out?

  2. @mckra1g says:

    The colors on your chart: the significance? Volume? Specific funds/industries? Levels of investment? I get a sense of scale, but am I to assume that size = trading volume? Price of stock? There’s no key, or at least none that is represented on my monitor. FWIW, I am a neophyte in terms of true stock trading. Previous life: all mutual funds.

    Thanks for your posts on twitter. I enjoy following you. Best, M.

  7. Mark Essel says:

    Thanks Howard.

    You've got some good data being generated, great crowd sourced direction. I certainly smell some juicy value in that info stream.

    How are you guys thinking of tackling positive or negative mentions? Victus Media's IMM (Intelligent Media Manager) needs to tackle the same problem. We get back entities, but I'd like to know if they were favorably or unfavorably mentioned.

    Even this plot gets me curious, buzz factor alone shows attention.
    A quick good or bad attention, buy or sell framework would be even more interesting. The collective knowledge in the stocktwits is what we're after with data mining the stream.

    You could introduce a syntax to your users, they have caught on to $ and $$
    human tagged with symbology would make data gathering easier.
    good :)
    bad :(
    buy +
    sell –

    In lieu of introducing syntax/language you can do some groovy stuff with semantics but whatever utility is come up with will need some good old human testing to make sure it's good enough to capture the pulse.

    Help me understand some of the terminology (resistance, support, etc). I understand up, down, dropping, rising, hot, cool.

    How do you avoid bots noising up your stream?

    ps this blog could use an ad widget personalized to my tweets. If only there was such an easy to snag gadget. Up for fundraising and trying it out?

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