Source Adapters A wide range of media sources were used as sources of sentiment. A number of the sources provided historic data for training purposes.
NLP Sentiment Using NLTK.org the events are parsed. Sentiment is measured as a number between -1 and 1.
Sentiment Parsing A trading decision to buy or sell and the confidence of that decision was made based on the sentiment.
Trade Execution An example FX broker (oanda.com) was added to show trade execution of the trading decisions.
Position Keeping & Back Testing Market data and trade history were visualised to provide feedback and trade success were fed back to train the NLP sentiment component.