01. Prashant Bhuyan, Alpha Modus, Visits #theCUBE!. (00:21) 02. Tell Us About Alpha Modus And How You Use Data. (00:43) 03. Financial Institutes Using News To For Analytics. (03:24) 04. What Is Your Objective For Alpha Modus And What Do You Do. (04:36) 05. Are You Doing Anything With Venture Investing. (07:20) 06. Share Some Of The Impact Of Tech And How That Impacts A Business. (08:01) 07. How Does Natural Language Processing Fit In. (11:01) 08. Give Us Examples Of Your Successes. (12:35) 09. What Are Things That You're Doing That Weren't Available Before. (15:27) 10. Predictive Versus Prescriptive Analytics. (17:32) 11. What Is The Vibe Of The Show. (19:02) Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com. --- --- Predicting stock market behavior through natural language and sentiments | #IBMInterConnect by Marlene Den Bleyker | Feb 22, 2016 In the trading world, Alpha is a measurement of performance on a risk-adjusted basis. Alpha Modus Corp. is helping traders navigate the stock market using data to identify cognitive biases (or deviations from the norm) in market behavior. Prashant Bhuyan, Co-Founder & CEO, Alpha Modus, spoke with the John Furrier and Dave Vellante, co-hosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to discuss how Alpha Modus is using data to change investment strategies. Uncovering buried data Alpha Modus spoke at the IBM InterConnect event, demonstrating the value of using data. The company started in 2014 as an investment technology company, and the goal is to ultimately reprice investment advice. “The way we do this is by looking at predictive patterns in market behavior that is buried in unstructured data, natural language,” Bhuyan said. “We discovered Bluemix [IBM Bluemix] organically … suddenly, when we incorporated the Bluemix APIs, we could incorporate Tweet insights, natural language processing into our new model making to improve the accuracy of our old models.” Bhuyan explained that after adding the natural language processing element, the company was able to improve their predictions by a factor of five. Strategy vs. Robo investing The key distinction between Robo investing and what Alpha Modus is doing comes down to active and passive action. Robo investing mimics the index for free, where Alpha Modus focuses on active management by saying, ‘Let’s beat the market on a risk-adjusted basis.’ Alpha Modus is cloud native, and the technology behind the company’s insight process is deployed on the cloud through IBM. “Bluemix and Watson are helping to unleash creativity by expanding our intelligence,” Bhuyan explained. @theCUBE #IBMInterConnect