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Bitcoin Forecasts

June 22, 2018 by Kevin Coogan

Continuing Bear Market for Crypto-Assets In February 2018, ZettaCap published a 33-page report entitled Bitcoin Bubble Bursts, Historical Investment Bubbles Provide Roadmap.  It stated, correctly, that bitcoin was in a financial bubble that had recently burst.  At the time such a forecast was not a consensus view with many still discussing bitcoin increasing 10-fold within the foreseeable future.  In […]

Filed Under: 21st Century Data, Big Data, Forecasts, Markets, Trading Tagged With: alt-coins, bitcoin, BTC, crypto-assets, financial bubbles, investment bubbles, price deflation

Euro Forecast and Italian Election

June 22, 2018 by Kevin Coogan

Accurate Forecasts of Italian Election and Euro Prior to Italy’s General Election in March 2018, we made an out-of-consensus forecast that Italy’s smaller right-leaning parties would outperform polls, upsetting the political order in Italy and Europe.  We predicted that the Euro’s appreciation would essentially stop due to the unexpected shift in Italian politics.  The election forecast […]

Filed Under: 21st Century Data, Big Data, Election, Euro, Forecasts, Italian Election, Machine Learning, Markets, Trading Tagged With: Elections, Euro, Europe, Italy, SMI, social media influence

German Election: FDP gaining attention

June 27, 2017 by Kevin Coogan

German Election Update Last month’s post on the German Election showed that Social Media Influence (SMI) was pointing to the FDP outperforming their rather meager poll and betting market figures.  The implication was that Germany would shift to the right with FDP likely entering into a ruling coalition with Merkel’s CDU/CSU.  At the time of […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Forecasts, German Election, Social Media Analysis, Social Media Influence Tagged With: CDU, CSU, FDP, forecasting, German Election, Lindner, Merkel, social media analysis, social media influence

SMI and UK’s Labour Late Surge

June 7, 2017 by Kevin Coogan

UK Election The 2017 UK General Election will be held tomorrow, the 8th of June.  Most assumed that it would be a relatively easy victory for the Conservative Party of Prime Minister May.  In fact, it has only been in about the last two weeks since alarm bells went off as an increasing number of […]

Filed Under: 21st Century Data, Big Data, Election, Forecasts, Social Media Influence, UK Election

German Elections: FDP to Outperform

May 27, 2017 by Kevin Coogan

Social Media Influence          Establishment Parties to lose ground to FDP Germany holds its next general federal election on September 24, 2017, which will elect members of the Bundestag, or Germany’s lower house.  As a single party normally does not get a majority, post-election coalition talks are held to form a coalition […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Forecasts, German Election, Polls, Social Media Analysis, Social Media Influence Tagged With: AfD, betting markets, CSU, FDP, German Election, Lindner, Merkel, polls, Schulz, social media analysis, social media influence, SPD

ZettaCap: European Assets to Outperform

May 11, 2017 by Kevin Coogan

European Flow of Funds          Pouring into Europe In March, ZettaCap published a report forecasting impending outperformance for European assets mostly due to the expected underperformance of populists in 2017 European elections, based on Social Media Influence (‘SMI’) forecasts.  Since the report’s publication, there has been a marked uptick in flow of funds to and a […]

Filed Under: 21st Century Data, Big Data, Forecasts, French Election, German Election, Markets, Social Media Influence, Technical Analysis, Trading Tagged With: AfD, Europe Outperformance, German Election, Macron, SMI, zettacap

SMI Outperforms Polls in French Election

May 8, 2017 by Kevin Coogan

French Presidential Election           SMI has lowest Forecasting Error Emmanuel Macron beat Marine Le Pen with 66.1% versus 33.9% of the popular vote, respectively.  Social Media Influence (SMI) was the most accurate known forecasting method with a forecasting error of 2.7% in comparison to an average forecasting error of 4.1% for […]

Filed Under: 21st Century Data, Big Data, Forecasts, French Election, Social Desirability Bias, Social Media Influence Tagged With: forecasting, forecasting error, Le Pen, Macron, polls, social media influence

Final Forecast French Presidential Election

May 6, 2017 by Kevin Coogan

2017 French Election          Macron Victory, with slight outperformance On the eve of the second round of voting of the 2017 French Presidential Election, the SMI continues to point to Emmanuel Macron as the winner.  The consensus call is that Macron will in fact win tomorrow.  As the SMI forecast is in-line […]

Filed Under: 21st Century Data, Big Data, Forecasts, French Election, Social Media Analysis, Social Media Influence Tagged With: 2017 French Presidential Election, forecasts, Le Pen, Macron, SMI, social media analysis, social media influence

SMI: South Korean Presidential Forecast

April 28, 2017 by Kevin Coogan

South Korean Presidential Election          Late Surge for Sim Sang-jung but Moon Jae-in to Win Using Social Media Influence (SMI) to forecast political races is new and innovative.  It was used successfully to make early forecasts in the 2016 US Presidential Election, where it forecasted an eventual Trump victory, and in the 2017 French […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Forecasts, Polls, Social Desirability Bias, Social Desirability Bias, Social Media Analysis, Social Media Influence, South Korean Election Tagged With: forecasting, forecasts, polls, Social Desirability Bias, social media influence, South Korean Election

France: Second Round SMI Forecast

April 26, 2017 by Kevin Coogan

French Election           Second Round Analysis Social Media Influence (SMI) is currently forecasting a 61% Macron and 39% Le Pen split for the second round of voting. The average of eight polls (including OpinionWay, Ifop-Fiducial, Elabe, Ipsos, and Harris) conducted from April 23rd (day of first round voting) to present show a split of 62% Macron […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Forecasts, French Election, Polls Tagged With: forecasting, French Election, Le Pen, Macron, SMI, social media influence

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