JPMorgan’s Social Gamma Engine turns meme virality into volatility derivatives. When hashtags like “#BankRun” spread faster than 5 cm/s—the speed of a human nerve impulse—the system triggers long positions on fear indices, yielding annualized returns of 340%.
Even darker is the rise of Suicide Rate Hedge Funds. By analyzing depressive language patterns across social media, some firms short life insurance stocks—achieving 47% alpha during bear markets.
Ethics in Freefall
Emotions have become more lucrative than oil. Markets now mine despair, rage, and mass euphoria as priceable signals.
FINRA has attempted to halt trading in neuro-volatility assets, but underground platforms like SoulSwap are already offering EEG-based futures.
When Feelings Become Commodities
The emotional layer of the internet is no longer just reflected in markets—it is priced into them. In the wrong hands, your anxiety becomes someone’s arbitrage.