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Why ATA Creativity Skyrocketed 951% Today
Friday, February 5, 2021 - 12:28am | 590ATA Creativity Global (NASDAQ: AACG) stock closed over 951% today. What Happened: ATA shares were buoyed — thanks to discussions on Reddit investor forums WallStreetBets, Stocktwits, and Twitter Inc’s (NYSE: TWTR) platform, related to pumping the stock. AACG from r/...
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Social Leverage SPAC To Unlock Market Access To New Wave Technology Innovations
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 9:28am | 396Social Leverage Acquisition I, a blank check company, filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise nearly $300 million in an initial public offering. What Happened: Social Leverage is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage software, consumer, and fintech investments...
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SSI Addresses The Complexities Of Delivering Impactful Fintech And Market Data Solutions
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 4:14pm | 621Strategic Systems International, also known as SSI, is a software and data application developer with reaches across the business. Founded in 1991, SSI has worked on projects As technology has grown from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, so too has SSI. Today the company has over 220 data...
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Tesla Shorts Vs. Beyond Meat Shorts: Who's Getting Squeezed Harder?
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 12:04pm | 807Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares are up another 3% on Tuesday, and Tesla bulls are finally getting their long-awaited short squeeze. The stock is now up 119% in the past three months alone, but the short squeeze currently happening in Beyond Meat Inc (NASDAQ: BYND) could be even more impressive....
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StockTwits CEO Talks Social Media, Commission-Free Trading
Monday, December 9, 2019 - 3:13pm | 391StockTwits is a real-time financial communication and media network. The firm recently entered the brokerage business with a commission-free trading platform, Trade App. CEO Ian Rosen spoke about democratizing investing for investors of all skill levels Nov. 19 at the Benzinga Global Fintech...
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Everybody Hates The Peloton Ad, But Stock Is Doing Just Fine Since The IPO
Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 11:45am | 478Peloton Interactive Inc (NASDAQ: PTON) shares are down another 3.3% on Thursday and are now down 13.6% since Monday after a holiday TV commercial went viral on social media. Despite the controversy, Peloton's stock has been a strong performer since its late-September IPO. The Peloton Ad...
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How Has Trading Sentiment Changed In The Retail Sector Ahead Of Black Friday?
Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - 1:06pm | 610The holiday shopping season, Black Friday and Cyber Monday in particular, is the most important time of year for U.S. retailers. Sentiment data from StockTwits could provide traders with some unique insight into market expectations for Black Friday 2019. Unfortunately, retail stocks are coming off...
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CBOE, IBM Watson, Sequentum Execs On Alternative Data: Quality Is Key
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 5:10pm | 612A basic truth exists for investors looking to extract value from alternative data, said Sequentum CEO Sarah McKenna: they need clean, valuable data feeds to start with. The New York-based company provides software and services for web data collection at scale. “Your artificial intelligence,...
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How Trader Sentiment On Streaming Stocks Has Changed Since Disney+ Launch
Monday, November 18, 2019 - 5:05pm | 426Tuesday marks one week since Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) launched its Disney+ streaming service, and so far the market has declared it a tremendous success. In the past week, Disney shares are up 8.5%, while top competitor Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is up just 3.1%. The Disney+ launch came with...
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Commission-Free StockTwits App Allows Users To Buy, Sell Fractions Of Shares
Monday, October 7, 2019 - 1:23pm | 369StockTwits, a real-time financial communication and media network, has entered into the brokerage business with a commission-free trading platform, TradeApp. The development comes after a series of incumbent brokers eliminated commissions from their pricing models, drumming up interest and...
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SPY Trader Sentiment Drops Following Rate Cut
Thursday, August 1, 2019 - 9:42am | 409Investors got the interest rate cut they were expecting from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, but the market didn’t respond the way many had hoped. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) finished the day down about 1%, and the S&P 500 closed back under 3,000. StockTwits Buzz The rate...
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TradingView Integrates More Brokers And Features, 'Twitch For Traders'
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - 4:10pm | 924In an interview with Benzinga, Pierce Crosby, general manager at TradingView, the largest online social networking and data analysis tool for financial markets, discussed new features like Lightweight Charts and live streaming, as well as plans to integrate direct trading via TradeStation and...
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Chipmaker Trader Sentiment Received A Major Boost From G-20
Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - 10:01am | 487Semiconductor stocks have been on fire this week following news of a G-20 trade war truce between the U.S. and China. Rumors of a potential semiconductor mega-merger between Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ: AVGO) and Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) may also be feuling semiconductor stocks, and investor...
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Why Slack's IPO Investor Sentiment Might Be A Good Omen
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 10:30am | 634Slack Technologies Inc (NYSE: WORK) hit the ground running on Thursday following its highly anticipated IPO. Tech companies have had mixed returns when it comes to big-name IPOs in 2019. Here’s a look at how Slack’s performance and investor sentiment from data provided by StockTwits...
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StockTwits To Launch Commission-Free Trading App
Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 9:00am | 443StockTwits is launching commission-free stock trading starting in the second quarter. What To Know StockTwits has created the new StockTwits Trade App, which will allow users to place unlimited free equity trades. The app will be offered by StockTwits subsidiary ST Invest LLC, a registered broker-...