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Not going to sign up to read that article, so apologies if this is off base or duplicative of what's in the article.

But, automated sentiment analysis gone wrong maybe? Bots see a bunch of negative things with "cuba" in it on twitter/the news and decide that cuba the fund is in trouble.

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The excerpt is from this SSRN preprint, section III: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2790606

The fund went up not down. That aside, I believe the point is that if a bot goes and does that, it is simply doing what a human told it to do; bots reflect the commands of their human masters in an environment (financial markets) created by and for human endeavors. Hiding behind "bots" is not a way to get insight into mechanics of how markets (mal)function, IMO.

Well sure, but (under my thoery) the humans rationally decided to use automated sentiment analysis, knowing that there is a error rate, but finding that it is low enough that they can make money. This just happened to be one of those errors. And substitute negative sentiment for positive sentiment in my original post to match the direction of stock movement.

Thanks for the direct link!

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