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BUZZ ETF is tracking the price and yield performance of the BUZZ NextGen AI US Sentiment Leaders Index. It includes 75 US stocks with the largest market cap and the highest degree of positive investor sentiment.
On Thursday, March 4, the VanEck Vectors Social Sentiment ETF (or BUZZ ETF) started trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). In its trading debut, BUZZ ETF dropped by 3.4%. As of 11:05 a.m. ET, BUZZ traded at $23.61. Currently, its price totals $23.52 per share.
What Is BUZZ ETF?
VanEck Vectors Social Sentiment ETF (BUZZ ETF) is tracking the price and yield performance of the BUZZ NextGen AI US Sentiment Leaders Index (BUZZTR). It includes 75 US stocks with the largest market cap which exhibit the highest degree of positive investor sentiment and bullish perception. The selection of stocks was based on content aggregated from online sources including social media, news articles, blog posts, as well as other alternat
On Thursday, VanEck announced the launch of the
VanEck Vectors Social Sentiment ETF (BUZZ), which provides investors value-added exposure to large cap U.S. stocks with the most bullish investor sentiment and perception.
“We are experiencing a monumental moment within the history of the retail investor Twitter, Reddit, Stocktwits, and dozens of other platforms have established communities for investors to discuss stocks, and as a result of soaring online engagement, they have become an alternative dataset for investors to scour and utilize for a performance edge,” said Ed Lopez, Managing Director, Head of ETF Product for VanEck. “BUZZ empowers individual investors to potentially benefit from the predictive insights gained by measuring the collective convictions about stocks, ultimately building the benchmark for social sentiment.”
March 3, 2021
Five years ago, I met a really nice guy named Jamie Wise on the conference circuit. Wise had fascinating ideas about scraping public internet chatter about stocks to build an index that tries to ping stocks currently in favor with retail investors, using a bunch of AI and other carefully curated data sources.
I having run a fund that included a lot of thinking about this in the late ’90s that crashed and burned was skeptical. Jamie got a fund launched with Sprott as a partner (which we covered back in the day). The fund did okay but didn’t gain a lot of traction and closed in March 2019. Now it’s back in a new form with partner VanEck. There’s real work here under the hood, and I have no beef with either the idea behind the index or VanEck jumping in. If anything, jumping into something fun and new is very on-brand for VanEck. (See also fallen angel bonds, BDCs, Rare Earth Metals, Agribusiness, Videogames, Bitcoin, Gold miners, etc. Totally on brand.)
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With the advent of smartphone applications, it’s difficult to get away from social media. The majority of today’s retail investors are bombarded with social media influences on a daily basis. ETF provider VanEck has sniffed out an opportunity with the creation of the
With all the hype surrounding the Reddit user forum WallStreetBets, the timing couldn’t be more auspicious. Since the GameStop debacle that saw retail traders associated with the forum short squeeze hedge fund positions and cause catastrophic losses, the capital markets are giving sentiment trading via social media a closer look.