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Social Media as a Trading Signal in Futures Markets

July 16, 2025

At Context Analytics, we are the leader in converting unstructured data into actionable insights for the financial community. One of our most powerful and popular tools is our S-Factor feed, which provides real-time X (formerly Twitter) sentiment signals across various asset classes and exchanges—including the fast-moving futures market.

Twitter Volume for Futures Price Movements

October 9, 2024

At Context Analytics, we provide social sentiment data for a wide range of asset classes, including global equities, futures, FX, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies. One of our flagship products is the S-Factor Feed, which captures sentiment and volume metrics from Twitter. In this blog, we dive into an analysis of the Futures market, leveraging sentiment insights […]

StockTwits Commodity Trading

January 17, 2024

In this blog post, we explore the commodities markets and delve into the role of sentiment analysis on the StockTwits platform in influencing trading decisions.

Sentiment Weighted Futures Portfolio

February 22, 2023

Intro: Using Twitter sentiment and volume metrics in the Commodities market can enhance portfolio performance. A sample portfolio using only Context Analytics S-Factors, decreases risk while also outperforming the benchmark 80% over a 7-year period.

SMA Futures Data Sanities

January 4, 2021

This blog will explore the predictive nature of our Futures Twitter based sentiment factors. We calculate real time predictive sentiment on 106 futures. Although factors calculated are identical to equity-based S-factors the NLP is unique because conversations on futures vary significantly based on asset classes. For example, an oil refinery fire is going to be […]

Predictive Real-Time Alerting on Commodities

December 11, 2018

Social Market Analytics (SMA) tracks real-time sentiment on equities, commodities, currencies, ETF’s and crypto currencies. SMA has the most powerful and customizable Alerting API combining Twitter sentiment and pricing metrics. Users receive custom real-time sentiment alerts on instruments in their watch list. For example, on December 11, 2018, SMA’s alerting system sent an alert on Corn […]

Social Market Analytics (SMA) Trading Strategy on Natural Gas Futures

November 21, 2018

Social Market Analytics, Inc. (SMA) has been the leading provider of predictive quantitative signal in the alternative data space for 7 years. Over the years, we have developed patented algorithms that use machine learning and natural language processing to provide content that generates alpha. Our NLP is unique because of our proprietary processes that tag […]

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