This Bot Shorts Stocks Based on Trump’s Tweets
A digital marketing company built software that automatically analyzes and trades off of the president's Twitter feed.
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President Donald Trump’s tweets have caused headaches for everyone from Mexico’s currency traders to the world’s most valuable companies. Now there’s a robot out to profit from the pain.
Meet the Trump and Dump bot, a computer program that automatically shorts stocks based on Trump's tweets. Created by the advertising agency T3, the software extracts companies named in the president's tweets and analyzes their sentiment. If the tweet is deemed negative, the bot will short the stock within seconds and then send an alert to T3.