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Launch Response

I honestly had no idea what to expect for Launch day that was just this past Friday. I was honestly very entertained by the wonderful seniors that presented their presentations that they had been working on for over a year. I honestly can not stress the fact enough that these seniors really did put a ton of their time and energy into giving us a day that taught us wonderful and interesting things.

This brings me to which Launch Day presentation that interested and inspired me the most. Most interested me the most was the presentation on how social media can influence the stock market. He gave multiple examples (such as tweets from Trump) that clearly showed that there is a correlation between how social media portrays certain stocks and the stock's price. What was more interesting to me, however, is when he began to talk about how an anonymous person made an actual AI that auto trades based on tweets and market strategies. Being a novice programmer myself, I began to research a bit more into this idea. I don't want to reveal much, but I have successfully begun to trade a bit automatically without loosing TOO much money.

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