Decoding Investor Sentiment
MarketPsych LLC is a leader in behavioral finance research and consulting, integrating the competitive advantages derived from behavioral economics into data and signals for the world's largest investment banks, hedge funds and brokerages.
Over the past seven years the MarketPsych team has developed proprietary text analysis software that identifies and quantifies economically predictive sentiments such as optimism and pessimism, or tones such as uncertainty or surprise.
"From the tens of thousands of newspaper articles, blogs, corporate presentations and Twitter messages being analysed every day, MarketPsych builds a picture of investor feelings about 6,000 companies." – Financial Times, July 16, 2010
Our data feed includes 400 plus sentiments, tones, and topics related to 7,000 U.S. stocks. Our data is offered both through our API and via graphical tools that allow for immediate visualization of trends in online conversation.
The MarketPsych Data Feed provides intraday sentiment updates from sources such as earnings call transcripts, chat forums and social media sites. MarketPsych's innovative software engine scours millions of online conversations and normalizes the data for quantitative research application.
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