Interview with Seyed Kazempour, Author of Finfluencers

10/21/24 • 45 min

In our first interview for the podcast, we talked with Dr. Seyed Kazempour about his paper called Finfluencers. It's a fascinating paper based on research on StockTwits. The conclusion? The more followers someone has on StockTwits, the worse their market predictions.

We discuss the implications of this research for traders.

Here's a link to the Finfluencers paper.
Here's a link to Dr. Seyed Kazempour's website.

We discuss the implications of this research for traders.

Here's a link to the Finfluencers paper.
Here's a link to Dr. Seyed Kazempour's website.

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Line Your Own Pockets - Interview with Seyed Kazempour, Author of Finfluencers

Transcript

Michael00:00:00.479

Okay everyone, welcome back to Line Your Own Pockets We have a very interesting episode today where we actually are chatting with Saeed who is gonna tell us a little bit about some quantitative aspects from the social media space and and how that can kind of affect trading from a retail side of things, how we can kinda keep an eye on what's going on in social media and potentially generate some alpha in a systematic and quantitative way. First of a