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Agenda

1. What is the commercial case for DigitalMR?

2. Case Study: Main Street Vs Wall Street

 a. Can social intelligence predict stock fluctuation?
 b. Which specific time series show better
 correlation/causation?
 c. What periodic combinations between signal and predicted
 value work best?
 d. What time lag should be used?

3. Other Findings

4. Closing Thoughts
Commercial Case: SITID
Social Intelligence for Trading & Investment Decisions

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The Alternative Data Market
 Global Market

 “55% of funds spend
 Alternative Data $100K to $1M per year on
 US$7B alternative data”
 - Lowenstein Sandler report, September 2019

 Social
 Sentiment
 US$500M

Source: Opimas.com

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The Problem
 Signal lost in noise & Limited scope

 Irrelevant posts USA US tickers

 Low sentiment accuracy Hello!
 English language

 No topic annotation News and Twitter

 Client Use Cases:

Not just about the discovery of new alpha but perhaps more importantly about risk monitoring and deal sourcing

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The Solution

 Custom:
 data cleaning models
 sentiment annotation models
 Selected topic annotation models
tickers from
 other large
 Stock
Exchanges Committed Accuracy:
 ≥90% relevance
 ≥80% semantic
 ≥75% sentiment

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Go-to-Market Strategy

 Leverage & Expand existing relationships

 Discussions with New Partners
 60%
Indirect Sales

 Discussions with Funds New Funds
 40%
Direct Sales Outbound &
 Inbound activity

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Value Proposition

→ High quality signals

→ Sentiment + topics

→ Tickers across all major stock exchanges

→ Better investment & trading decisions

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Case Study:
Main Street Vs Wall Street

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Case Study Overview 745,084

 • TIME PERIOD: 1st Dec. 2020 – 31st Jan. 2021*
 • SOURCES: Twitter, Reddit, Blogs, Forums, News (editorial), Reviews, Videos, Dark
 Web
 • TOTAL NUMBER OF POSTS: 3,017,122
 • KEYWORDS GATHERED: "gamestop" OR "robinhood" OR "melvin capital" OR
 (("GME" OR "AMC" OR "BB" OR "NOK" OR "EXPR" OR "PLTR”) AND ("stock" OR
 "stocks" OR "shares" OR "share price" OR "NYSE" OR "nasdaq" OR "wallstreet" OR
 "trade" OR "trading" OR "short"))

 Total No. of Posts

*Reddit data is available from 1st Jan. 2021 to 31st January 2021
*Data from all other sources is available from 1st Dec. 2020 to 31st Jan. 2021

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Text Annotation Approach

 ≥75% sentiment ≥80% semantic ≥90% relevance

Custom Sentiment Models Drill-down Topics Noise Elimination
 Starling Bank

 The Web Company

 Data Gathering
 Products Customer Experience
Post Annotation: Sentiment
 …
Sentiment Model Creation NOT
Post Processing: Sentiment Availability Quality Store Website Starling Bird

 Precision Checks Price

 Model Improvements Location Navigation
 In Store Offers

 Data Export
 (CSV, Excel Tables, PPT, dashboard) Facilities
 Online Convenience

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$GME - Time Series & Periodic Combinations
 Pearson Correlation

 *Reddit data is available from
 1st Jan. 2021 to 31st January
 2021
 *Data from all other sources
 is available from 1st Dec.
 2020 to 31st Jan. 2021

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$GME - Highest Pearson Correlation Coefficient

 *Reddit data is available from
 1st Jan. 2021 to 31st January
 2021
 *Data from all other sources
 is available from 1st Dec.
 2020 to 31st Jan. 2021

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$EXPR - Time Series & Periodic Combinations
 Pearson Correlation

 *Reddit data is available from
 1st Jan. 2021 to 31st January
 2021
 *Data from all other sources
 is available from 1st Dec.
 2020 to 31st Jan. 2021

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High correlation between GameStop buzz and stock price

 Pearson correlation (r): positive +
 neutral buzz fluctuation vs $GME
 stock price return (1 day lag) = 85%

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High correlation between AMC buzz and stock price

 Pearson correlation (r): total
 buzz fluctuation
 Pearson correlation (r): vs $AMC
 total
 stock price return (1 day lag)
 buzz fluctuation vs $AMC stock
 = 83%
 price return (1 day lag) = 83%

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High correlation between Express buzz and stock price

 Pearson correlation (r): total
 buzz fluctuation vs $EXPR
 stock price return (1 day lag) =
 82% Pearson correlation (r): total
 buzz fluctuation vs $EXPR stock
 price return (1 day lag) = 82%

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High correlation between Nokia buzz and stock price

 Pearson correlation (r): total buzz
 fluctuation vs $NOK stock price
 return (1 day lag) = 85%
 Pearson correlation (r): total buzz
 fluctuation vs $NOK stock price
 return (1 day lag) = 85%

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Other Findings

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1. The “YOLO” attitude
 16,000
 13,926 “@wallstreetbets if we could YOLO some BB
 14,000
 tomorrow that would be great” (Twitter)
 12,000

 NO. OF POSTS: 62,105 10,000

 8,000
 5,616 “I bought GME at the top. Don't care about
 6,000
 making a profit, fuck it. YOLO” (Forums)
 2,988 4,000
 1,490
 Number of posts 2,000

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 something, I'd throw it in GME shares or PLTR shares. PLTR
 for the long term, GME for the short term. Maybe split $20k
 GME / $30k PLTR, and once GME hits $150 or higher take my
“I just cleared my debts, i have $500, I want to go YOLO, do i gains and dump them into more PLTR.” (Forums)
 buy GME at the price that its at?” (Reddit)

“BRB gonna yolo everything into “HOLD THE LINE. YOLO THIS SHIT. AMC.
 “YOLO into AMC tomorrow?
GME! It can only go up!” (Twitter) GAMESTOP. NOKIA. LETS DO IT!” (Videos)
 or nah?” (Forums)

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2. Other companies come up without searching for them

 $BB 826,755
 “Check out this hot penny stock Naked
 $GME 719,267 (NAKD) and Express (EXPR)! (…)” (Videos)
 $EXPR 549,645
 $AMC 285,299
 $NOK 126,083
 $PLTR 20,702 “@TreJames_ I saw amc bed bath and beyond tanger outlet
 $BBBY 15,285 and some others that are gonna be targeted next” (Twitter)
 $NAKD 14,676
 $AAL 13,002 50,417
 $SNDL 7,454 “FWIW AAL is next reddit “Gogo nakd gme and amc are all high in
 mob target” (Forums) short interest this will be interesting. AAl is
 going up too and thats great! I have little
 “my next bet is bed bath and beyond new amount but i like it.” (Forums)
management team and its also being shorted. its “AAL all in baby” (Reddit)
actually somewhat similar to GME restructuring.
 Just lmao.” (Forums) “I am in with NOK, AMC, SNDL ...” (Reddit)
 “AMC, BB, BBBY madness” (Twitter)

 “@elonmusk LETS BUY $AMC $NOK “#SNDL isn’t blocked yet, get it sent to
$GME $NAKD TRAP THE SUITS” (Twitter) “Hold amc but also buy sndl” (Twitter) the moon ” (Twitter)

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3. Net Sentiment ScoreTM
 Melvin Capital
 -17% “(…) HOLD THE FUCKING STONKS!!
 $EXPR ✋ ✋ MELVIN CAPITAL BURN TO
 -6%
 THE GROUND incoming tendies!!” (Reddit)
 -2% Robinhood
 $GME 2%
 “Looks like my math so off by $500
 $AMC 6% mil loll. Melvin Capital is fucked. That
 also assuming GME is the only
 $PLTR 9% company they are shorting.” (Forums)
 $NOK 14%
 $BB 56%
 “I'm extremely happy that Melvin
 Capital got caught on their bullshit
 “Melvin capital can eat shit. (…)” (Forums) here. (…)” (Twitter)
“All my homies hate Melvin capital”(Reddit)

 “I'd say they bankrupted themselves by playing the game the
 “Maybe Melvin Capital doesn't have the leverage for that? Elon way they were. The only thing that happened is that the
 Musk went against them and he has decent connections. market pivoted and reacted differently..” (Forums)
 Perhaps they are really about to go down.” (Videos)

 “That’s why I don’t care if I lose my few shares. I’m not
 “Or buy high and push higher to fuk bears & Melvin Capital”(Reddit) selling until Melvin capital is out of business.” (Reddit)

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4. Some believe Elon Musk is involved, as payback to Melvin C.
 3,000
 2,784

 2,500
 “@Reuters Elon tweeted Gamestonk yesterday
 with a link and was in the reddit forum about
 2,047
 2,000 Melvin hes buying a bunch of Game Stop
 apparently because Melvin was shorting Tesla
 NO. OF POSTS: 10,970 for a while and this is payback.” (Twitter)
 1,500

 1,000

 500 “All I got is the people getting screwed the
 Number of posts most (thus far) are the types of people who
 0 own multiple boats. And Melvin Capital tried to
01-Dec 08-Dec 15-Dec 22-Dec 29-Dec 05-Jan 12-Jan 19-Jan 26-Jan short Tesla multiple times Elon never forgot
 and now he seems to be the captain of the SS
 TAKE DOWN HEDGE FUNDERS” (Twitter)
 “@wrestlingskum @N3rdC3ntral @People4Bernie Its also worth noting that
 Elon Musk is shilling Gamestop stock specifically because its Melvin Capital
 who repeatedly shorted Tesla for years eating the cost.” (Twitter) “@AmiFFXIV After reading up on this it seems that one
 hedge fund in particular is the target here.. Melvin.
 They had a large short position on Gamestop which
 “quote: Reddit Investors @redditinvestors Elon Musk is means they are losing billions now it is going up. This
 shilling GameStop because Melvin Capital shorted Tesla a long hedge fund shorted Tesla previously and Elon has
 time ago and bragged about it.” (Forums) been tweeting about it..” (Twitter)

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5. $NOK and $BB are stocks to keep an eye on
 47,986 46,510 50,000
 “Ladies buy BB when the market opens
 45,000 while its still low, it will go up” (Forums)
 NO. OF POSTS: 954,946 36,681 40,000
 35,000
 27,406 30,000 “Let’s not lose this fight, buy all the shares you can
 25,000 and hold your shares with diamond hands , let’s
 20,000 goooo $GME $AMC $BB $NOK” (Forums)
 15,000
 Number of posts $NOK
 10,000 “BUY BB HOLD BB TOMORROW ”
 Number of posts $BB
 5,000 (Reddit
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01-Dec 08-Dec 15-Dec 22-Dec 29-Dec 05-Jan 12-Jan 19-Jan 26-Jan
 “@business BUY $NOK $BB $AMC lets
 get this done!!!” (Twitter)
 “ NOKIA (NOK) STOCK | MASSIVE POTENTIAL | ARE YOU BUYING?”
 (Videos)
 “@reddittrading Buy $NOK
 “BUY AND HOLD AMC THIS DUDE IS “Buy BB shares Monday before lift off please and hold!” (Twitter)
 TRYING TO SWAY US OFF THE SHIP, BUY 
 GME, BUY AMC, BUY BB, BUY NOK AND ” (Videos)
 FUCKING HOLD” (Reddit)
 “@bIackopium HOLD THE LINE #AMC
 “LETS GOO GUYS!! BUY NOK BB & #GME #NOK #BB BUY THE DIPS. DO
 AMC, KEEP THEM BUSY” (Reddit) NOT SELL” (Twitter)
 “@GerberKawasaki BUY NOK!!” (Twitter)

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6. “FOMO” is one of the reasons to buy
 900
 786
 800 “Market is insane on $GME, everyone is FOMO.
 676
 Germany market propped it up 310 a share. Melvin
 700
 Capital is dead in the water.” (Forums)
 600
 NO. OF POSTS: 3,830 500

 400 “@uhWizard i sold amc and now i
 300 have fomo still in nok” (Twitter)
 200
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 100 “@breakneck_tv I think I hopped into AMC a bit late, but fomo
 0 after staring at GameStop the last couple days made it so I
 couldn’t sit out anymore” (Twitter)
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 “I will feel sad if anyone go broke because they FOMO GME” (Reddit)
 “Am I the only one with FOMO buying GME today? I bought one
 share yesterday and am getting five when the market opens
 today...not the biggest loss if it goes badly I guess.” (Forums)
 “Well I FOMOed into BB this morning.” (Forums)

 “I believe there is definitely a strong element of
 “the fear of missing out has “YOLO IM BUYING TOMORROW.
 FOMO with this stock, especially with what we’ve
 surpassed the fear of losing FOMO IS TOO REAL. TO THE
 seen in stocks like GME and AMC.” (Forums)
 money " - some dude” (Reddit) MOON ” (Reddit)

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7. A taste of the Dark Web

 NO. OF POSTS: 6,462
 “Melvin Capital lost about 53% in January on “Guys I'm speaking literally
 GameStop Corp. after the firm found itself on the , retail exchanges are
 “@If you missed gamestop.. Buy receiving end of a short squeeze started by retail removing the ability to buy
 Blackberry and Nokia and Silver. investors motivated on Reddit. (…)” AMC, GME and BB”
 (…)”

 “Billionaires can remain solvent longer “We'll list every single #stock that
 “I've heard it's about to spike
 than you can remain irrational. Melvin @RobinhoodApp delists as a tokenized stock.
 like GameStop did”
 Capital has a very real chance of going Blockc ain is the real way we democratize the
 insolvent. (…)” financial system together. Trade $GME, $BB,
 $SLV, $NOK, $AMC and other tokenized stocks
“Melvin Capital lost about 53% in on Bittrex Global now.”
 January on GameStop Corp.” “buy gamestop stock and hold the line soldier”

 “ (…) it's important to realize that the eventual winners of this
 “Robinhood is automatically scenario aren't going to be the Redditors holding on to $GME
 selling GME shares without user shares, but the wealthy short-sellers who manage to either
 consent now.” predict the pop or simply have enough assets to hold on long
 enough for it to happen. (…)”

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Closing Thoughts

1. Accuracy of annotation

2. The most important DS skillset

3. Sales

4. YOLO meets FOMO

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