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A recent TEDx talk entitled "Can Google predict the stock market?" analyses to which extent Google and Wikipedia can provide meaningful trading signals. Interesting to watch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwk0mfpOi_s

The same researcher co-authored a "Scientific Reports" paper which was published last week: "Internet users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic product (GDP) are more likely to search for information about years in the future than years in the past, a quantitative analysis...

There is also a related publication: http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/368/1933/5707 "Complex dynamics of our economic life on different scales: insights from search engine query data"

TEDxZurich - Tobias Preis - Bubble Trouble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJWi_6s10nw When a stock market rises unsustainably, it can create a financial bubble that sooner or later will burst. Dr. Tobias Preis explains whether concepts from physics can be used to create a law describing...

A joint study by academics in Switzerland, Germany and at Boston University sheds new light on the formation of financial bubbles and crashes ... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-05/bu-boa050211.php

Actually it is not so complicated. If you are familiar with C or a comparable programming language then you can write a simple GPU program after some days ... Then, the idea is to connect this power to a trading API ...

Thanks! Are there resources about GPU use in financial markets publicly available? I can contribute this scientific paper: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/11/9/093024/ Are there others?

Recent developments in high performance computing provide strong evidence that graphic cards can be successfully used as high-performance many-core processors. Thus, it is possible to accelerate a wide range of applications. These workhorses should be excellent for needs in financial markets...