It’s a match made in real-time heaven. StockTwits, a popular site that lets you track real-time discussions about stock information on Twitter, is now featuring a live feed of real-time news provided compliments of SkyGrid, the powerful real-time financial news aggregator.
SkyGrid will now embed a widget on StockTwits pages, showing a stream of incoming news for whatever company you’re currently looking at (you can also see a broader stream of news if you haven’t visited an individual company page). In effect, the site will now let you monitor both the news and the conversation around it in real-time, making the site even more useful for investors. And if you’re only on the lookout for good news (or bad news), you can filter by that too: SkyGrid uses semantic text analysis to determine if each incoming article is deemed positive, negative, or neutral about a given company.
At this point the SkyGrid widget is only available on StockTwits. However, I’d be very surprised if we don’t start seeing it pop up on more publisher sites soon, though it may be some time before anyone is able to grab the widget.
It’s kinda funny that your screen cap is from 6/23. Were you saving that one?
Meanwhile StockTwits added streaming NASDAQ data via DM in Twitter etc.
http://blog.sto...m/data-junkies/
I should be blogging breaking news for you at this pace!
I suppose that’s good if you like to day trade. Too risky for me, I only buy stocks to hold for 5+ years, so focus on solid businesses and good dividends.
All the real-time Twitter and news will never match the power of automated computer trading platforms anyway. As soon as you read the news, the big traders have already seen a change in trading behavior and started placing their bets.
I don’t think I could fathom how useless Twitter comments must be regarding the stock market.
The idea sounds great and I hope there are measures put in place to maintain a high quality news feed from all those tweets coming in.
Stocktwits= $1,6M financing ? what’s their business plan? I think I’m missing something here.
I also feel reading twits is like I don’t know what I am reading…but it also presents opportunity for a good information filter – stocktwits and likes is on track for something useful, if done right.
This is good for StockTwits. SkyGrid’s got some great stuff under the hood and good folks behind it.
Cool
Easily engineered don’t you think?
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looks pretty useless. skygrid has been in business for a few years and this is all they come up with?
Interesting hook up indeed. I agree with the comment about day traders. The problem with most message boards is noise. The old Yahoo message boards created a self serving playground for pump and dump investors.
While the hookup with SkyGrid is interesting it still leaves the issue of finding great ideas. Sure you can find information and filter information once you know what you are looking for but would it not be helpful to learn about ideas and trends and not be limited to reading 140 character sound bites?
Only problem with SkyGrid it can be a criminal beehive for activities such as pump and dump and boiler room practices. It can really mess up this company.
Only problem with SkyGrid it can be a criminal beehive for activities such as pump and dump and boiler room practices. It can really mess up this company.
Agreed. This is good for stocktwits and skygrid. For real traders, this is great combo.
Agreed this is good for stocktwits and skygrid. For real traders, this is great combo.
why is this important ?