Everyone who is anyone in the finance space has been doing stuff like this since way before LLMs were a thing, and they've put a lot of time and effort into their tools. This suggestion is kind of like saying you should try to sell your lemonade stand to Coca-Cola.
That's exactly what I'm saying. If you've got something novel/hard to replicate, it's a no-brainer for them to pick up at any price. If not, that's good to know too.
Btw, Coca-Cola bought Minute Maid Lemonaide in 1960. :)
This is a good example of Dunning-Kruger, no offense. Sentiment analysis has been used as a tool to guide investments since the late 90s and there are companies out there who have been doing it for decades. LLMs didn't really break any new ground here, they just made this more accessible for the masses.
> Sentiment analysis has been used as a tool ... since the late 90s
Yes!
> LLMs didn't really break any new ground here
I don't think this is true. LLMs are a gigantic leap forward from any traditional sentiment analysis I've seen. Pre-2013, bag-of-words and TF-IDF were still state of the art. Call me out if you think I'm wrong, but hand-waving away the transformative power of LLMs here because we had some sentiment analysis approaches before seems unfair.
Sounds like you are the one suffering from Dunning-Kruger. Just check out one of the reports and you will see that it's lots more than just "sentiment analysis", and much more dynamic.
