Stock Market Analysis at DeepMarket

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I have not dug too far into the documentation, but AGEIA has released their PhysX SDK which allows game developers to take advantage of the PhysX Processor for more realistic physics simulations in games. Computer games have been pushing the envelop of computing since the beginning of the electronics age and many of the advances that make game play better eventually translate into better computing for non-game applications. The PhysX Processor is a dedicated processor for handling only the physics calculations - generally done in software - of a game (or other applications that leverage the SDK and processor). This offloading and specialization is part of the trend seen in graphics cards that have become ever more powerful and removing the graphics processing tasks from the general purpose CPU in a machine. AGEIA says that the “PhysX Processor completes the triangle of game function, graphics and interactive real-time environments from physics computing, balancing the load of these processing tasks and enabling incredible realism in tomorrow’s games.”

The trend to find areas of opportunity for optimization - such as Graphics Processors (GPUs) and now the PhysX Processor - most likely will not just benefit the game developer and consumer. Not having dug deep into the SDK documentation, I can only imagine that there are opportunities to leverage the processing power of a dedicated physics processor for calculations of heavy duty stock market problems. Of course, the same could be said about leveraging the awesome power of graphics processors. The wonderful thing about general purpose processors is that you can throw anything at them and they will do what you need. Specialized processors like the GPU and physics processor have a much narrower view of the world and are effective on certain types of problems. But when you find a problem or calculation that can benefit from these processors, they can have a major impact on speed. And who wouldn’t want to solve some of their most complex problems faster?

I still owe a short article on correlation of stock prices, but did separate out the list of correlations into their own pages. For instance, to find the list of stocks highly correlated (both positive and negative) with Microsoft, go to www.deepmarket.com/correlation/msft. As new experiments are added, new pages will be added to make it easy to get to results quickly.

Also, further improvements with the searching for symbols and company names have been added. On the right side of every page there are search boxes that should help you find any of the stocks in our database. Generally, the shorter your search phrase (”apple” instead of “apple computer”), the better the results. The searching will improve - I just need to fix it. For now we only have NASDAQ stocks and will add more stocks in the future, but will concentrate on these for now.