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"the deal"... Is still being negotiated Company x has been looking "to acquire" a player in field y for some time and hasn't found any candidates yet.

Keyword analysis by itself is almost completely useless.



Since when do newspapers write about the lack of something happening? That's sort of anti-news, isn't it? I could potentially see them writing something like that as a throwaway sentence in another article about the company, but the phrasing you've quoted is incredibly awkward and would probably never make it into a real news story.

Also, an algorithm doesn't have to be perfect, it merely has to be right more often than it's wrong. So what if you get a few false positives and a couple of your trades blow up? That's why you're managing a portfolio and not dumping your entire assets into a single trade.


When it comes to market speculation, non-news is published quite frequently. Often time it comes in the form of stories that summarize what happened that week.




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