Algorithms that can decode market sentiment are making waves in the institutional crypto landscape, a July 17 report from Reuters claims.
With the resounding return of Bitcoin's volatility amid an ever-hotter crypto market, hedge funds and asset managers are increasingly turning to software developers to help them interpret and harness sentiment signals to their advantage.
Bin Ren - CEO of Alan Howard-owned Elwood Asset Management - told Reuters that the soaring interest in developing algorithms capable of identifying price clues from the tumultuous social media landscape has become akin to "An arms race for money managers."
While A.I. and other software-driven sentiment analysis has long been an accepted tool in traditional financial markets, Reuters argues that crypto's nativity to the internet makes the asset class potentially an ideal fit for such algorithmic parsing tools.
The crypto sector isn't served by centralized sources of information - such as central banks - that can traditionally provide economic indicators and financial statements for investors to interpret.
The price of so-dubbed sentiment analysis algos is undeniably steep.
As Andrea Leccese, president of New York-based investment firm Bluesky Capital told Reuters, even a robot that can parse just anglophone Twitter can cost between $500,000-$1 million a pop, largely in developer fees.
This fragmentation and vibrancy of the social media landscape - extending beyond Twitter to Reddit, Russian-developed Telegram, Japan's Line, Korea's Kakao and China's WeChat, and many others - presents significant complexity for the Sherlocks of sentiment analysis.
As Cointelegraph has reported, a Q1 2019 survey from Big Four auditor PwC found that quantitative funds - who avail themselves of both sentiment analysis and other tools - managed to secure higher overall returns than their rivals.
This June, Fidelity-backed crypto analytics firm Coin Metrics partnered with Social Market Analytics to develop on a feed of real-time sentiment towards crypto based on Twitter data.
Money Managers Are Paying Big Bucks to Interpret Your Bitcoin Tweets
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