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Seriously, most finance "articles" already look like they were written by bots. I have no idea who reads garbage like this: http://www.tradershuddle.com/201011

by rorrr 16y ago

Seriously, most finance "articles" already look like they were written by bots. I have no idea who reads garbage like this: http://www.tradershuddle.com/20101117119131/Stocks/pre-market-update-gapping-stocks-f-urbn-c-fcx-hd.html http://www.tradershuddle.com/20101117119131/Stocks/pre-marke... http://collegestock.com/blog/885-metal-stocks-slumped-alcoa-inc-cenx-nor-fcx/ http://collegestock.com/blog/885-metal-stocks-slumped-alcoa-... There's literally no useful info, just data written as words.

JonnieCache 16y ago
That gets parsed back into data again by HFT bots probably. It's a mad world.
ankimal 16y ago
HFT = High Frequency Trading ?
- JonnieCache 16y ago
  Yep. They do natural language parsing of wire news stories to try and synthesize market intelligence. Which is one day going to lead to a civilization-ending feedback loop due to the sort of thing we're discussing here (in my paranoid hyperbolic opinion :)
firebones 16y ago
I ran across this one on the Motley Fool and discovered that they're doing this already. http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/11/02/is-activision-the-perfect-stock.aspx http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/11/02/is-activisi... The first 12 paragraphs and the last paragraph are completely boilerplate. There are two paragraphs in the middle that were probably human-written. What I don't know is whether this is just a prosthetic "code-generation" tool for their writers, or whether it's just this one writer. This Google search shows that it is definitely boilerplate, and that some articles appear to be 100% generated: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1438&bih=697&q=%22some+stocks+are+a+lot+closer+to+perfect+than+others%22+site%3Afool.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=f&oq=&gs_rfai= http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1438&bih=697&... Definitely a bot to "fool" the financial news aggregators.

by rorrr 16y ago

JonnieCache 16y ago

That gets parsed back into data again by HFT bots probably. It's a mad world.

ankimal 16y ago

HFT = High Frequency Trading ?

JonnieCache 16y ago
Yep. They do natural language parsing of wire news stories to try and synthesize market intelligence. Which is one day going to lead to a civilization-ending feedback loop due to the sort of thing we're discussing here (in my paranoid hyperbolic opinion :)

firebones 16y ago

I ran across this one on the Motley Fool and discovered that they're doing this already. http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/11/02/is-activision-the-perfect-stock.aspx http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/11/02/is-activisi... The first 12 paragraphs and the last paragraph are completely boilerplate. There are two paragraphs in the middle that were probably human-written. What I don't know is whether this is just a prosthetic "code-generation" tool for their writers, or whether it's just this one writer. This Google search shows that it is definitely boilerplate, and that some articles appear to be 100% generated: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1438&bih=697&q=%22some+stocks+are+a+lot+closer+to+perfect+than+others%22+site%3Afool.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=f&oq=&gs_rfai= http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1438&bih=697&... Definitely a bot to "fool" the financial news aggregators.