Investment advice data dump analysis

For my year-end pet project, I'd like to analyze investment advices and their correlation to the stock mark开发者_开发知识库et performance.

The problem is, where do I get the dump of investment advice data (free) ? something like stackoverflow.com data dump will be nice.

Or maybe it's easier to do distributed crawling and crawl the public finance webpages for investment advices?

Investment advice is buy/sell advice for stocks/forex, issued by institution/investment advisor.

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You could try extracting advices from twitter:

http://wefollow.com/twitter/stocks
http://wefollow.com/twitter/trading

I can give you 3.5 years of daily buy/neutral/sell public (but hard to find) advice from a major bank on around 10 Forex major pairs, if you promise to share the analysis you make on them with me :) My analysis shows that following all of their advices was extremely profitable during the late 2008 global collapse, but mostly flat before/after that:

X axis: time in days
Y axis: profit in points (pips)

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Most analyst recommendations are distributed through a product called IBES. I believe that it is available for a significant amount of money through Thomson Reuters. If you are interested in this data set they have a second one that is called something like "As Was" which has the original recommendations and not what the analysts updated it to later.

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Not free, but has a free trial: http://www.zacksdata.com/zacks-data-api

(Disclosure: My company manages this API)