e-Forex Magazine | Algorithmic FX Trading | Buying on Rumour and Selling on Fact: Twitter News Comes to Algo FX

Algorithmic FX Trading : Buying on Rumour and Selling on Fact: Twitter News Comes to Algo FX

First Published in e-Forex Magazine October 2009

Roger Aitken

Roger Aitken

Twitter, the social networking site, is fast catching on as a source of news for FX traders and other market participants, who can now feed 'tweets' into their algorithms in real-time to assist in making trading decisions. Roger Aitken explores.

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Twitter would appear well and truly ensconced in the world of FX algorithms, with traders deploying and using software developed by US-based technology StreamBase Systems (StreamBase) to monitor 'tweets' for price sensitive information. While the adoption of Twitter in a social context has been fairly profound globally, within days of the firm unfurling a seemingly innocuous communiqué on their development this June, a fevered debate erupted.

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