DataSwarm Markets
market trading
The DataSwarm Trading System tracks the market “zeitgeist”, we use this to inform trading decisions. Over 2 years trading we have achieved resuts over 10% higher than the S&P 500.
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investment strategies
Use the system’s analytics to help inform your strategies. Use the backtesting capabilities to help you refine your portfolio and investment strategies.
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consulting services
Engage DataSwarm Consulting for market research, analysis or education. We have many years’ experience using the system over a number of market sectors and industries, for a variety of applications.
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Industry trends
We integrate industry data across all industries and sectors to find the Zeitgeist and future trends. Our systems have been built over 10 years, working with major corporates globally.
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fundamental analysis
Tracking elements of fundamental company performance the system is also effective at comparing companies with each other and deriving insights into emerging trends and problems.
Quantitative analysis
The system tracks many factors at a fairly high frequency. We have also built up data history for c6000 US equities and have backtesting capabilities tested in our own trading.
event driven analysis
The DataSwarm system allows investors unique insights into key event types. We have found it to be very effective in our own trading outcomes.
macro analysis
The system won a IARPA Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge prize in 2019 for accurate predictions over a wide range of geopolitical events. We use it to track macro trends in our own trading.
DataSwarm Markets
Using the Zeitgeist to help your trading decisions 
Manage your portfolio using Zeitgeist blended with standard financial data, and track it vs indices (DataSwarm Trading Fund shown below) 
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Swarm Analytics - A New View of markets
Patterns of human interactions and opinions generate "data swarms" over time. Interweaving this with financial and other data sources gives the system a predictive capability with many applications.
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Proven Dataset and approach
We have used our predictive analytics in the US markets now for 2 years and have beaten the S&P 500 by more than 10% in that time
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granular and multidimensional
The system produces a number of different signals for every asset, multiple times per day. Assets can be grouped into classes
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highly configurable
System allows configurable strategies that can be back tested and forward forecasted. Allows users to tailor strategies to their needs
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Predicting the French Election 2022
As long term followers of DataSwarm may know, we have used the system for geopolitical prediction work, including predicting elections. We correctly predicted the result of the previous French Election (Macron won), but as we discussed at the time, we thought[…]
Predicting market movements using the Dataswarm Zeitgeist
Above – DataSwarm Zeitgeist (pink line) tracking the SPY ETF (based on S&P 500) vs its market price (blue line) Below – same for NASDAQ based QQQ. The yellow lines above and below the pink Zeitgeist line are the Bollinger bands (standard deviation level above and below a moving average of the Zeitgeist). Zeitgeist volume[…]
The 2022 Zeitgeist – “Interesting Times”, Russo-Ukrainian War and – what’s next?
Above – Normalised DataSwarm Zeitgeist (in pink) of QQQ (above) and SPY (below) ETFs showing their Bollinger bands, with ETF daily prices overlaid in dark blue The beginning of 2022 has proven to be “interesting”. For overall market direction it is helpful to look at the Zeitgeist for the NASDAQ and S&P500, as recorded using[…]
Two year experiment – trading in the US markets
Above – Dataswarm returns vs S&P over 24 months DataSwarm has used its signal to trade in the US markets for 2 years, from December 2019 to November 2021. The results (see above) were that we managed a 63% return over the period, at a low relative volatility/risk rate – Sharpe ratio of[…]
Meme based stock investing for fun and profit
Fund results (blue) vs. S&P Index, Dec 2019 to Feb 2021 Stock Prediction System We wrote some months ago about how we had built a social media meme based prediction system which we have been using for stock prediction – and set up a fund structure to test it. Our first trading year has been […]
SOLAR – It’s taken over a decade – now it’s their time to shine
Between the end of April and the beginning of August, DataSwarm pulled out 5 solar stocks as DataSwarm Market Zeitgeist potential winners. It wasn’t wrong, as it became clear over that period and into October just how serious their power was to become, with the DataSwarm Solar Portfolio rising by 141.34% from 28th April to[…]
Navigating a market correction with DataSwarm predictive analytics
(Graphic – DataSwarm fund performance vs S&P500 and NASDAQ over September) On the 1st September the DataSwarm Fund rose to more than 30% above its pre-Covid peak in February, due to a few of the stocks in its portfolio rising due to good earnings. On the 2nd of September, the US markets reached an all[…]
Clearing a Path to Cleaner Profits
REGI: Clearing the Path to a Clean Profit. Renewables. We hear the word every day. But who is really cleaning up right now in the industry? The DataSwarm Market Zeitgeist pulled REGI from the swarm in early March as a stock to buy, and since then it just keeps on giving… +175.84% from its lowest[…]
Is there a stock bubble and will it burst soon?
NASDAQ index, from the dotcom crash in 2000 to September 2020 (Y Axis is log scale) – Graph courtesy Yahoo! Finance We were asked by The Observer to comment on whether there is a bubble in the US stock market at the moment. This post is a more detailed discussion. In essence, we believe there[…]
Zoom – ZM: The New Way in The New World
We mentioned before how way back in early March at the start of the Covid Crash, the DataSwarm Zeitgeist (DZg) for Zoom (ZM) sprang up immediately as ‘the Future’. We added ZM to our portfolio and are very pleased we did as shares soared 134% ($117.47 to $457.69) between 3rd March and Zoom’s earnings[…]