Wired – Somewhere, out on the web, there’s a secret Twitter account that’s one hell of a stock picker. So far, the thing has recommended seven stock trades — all to a private group of traders — and each one of them has turned a profit.
The account isn’t run by a bunch of Ivy League MBAs scheming their way up the Wall Street ladder in lower Manhattan. It’s driven by a computer algorithm cooked up by three guys at a hacker school in San Francisco. They call it the Honey Badger algorithm, after that ongoing internet meme that espouses going your own way. And it shows that, thanks to the rise of open source software and cloud computing, anyone can compete on Wall Street. At least for a time.
