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# capstone_project
# Augor
A new Flutter project.
> Drilling beneath surface sentiment to extract trading signals from financial news.
## Getting Started
## What is this?
This project is a starting point for a Flutter application.
Augor uses Large Language Models to interpret business events and generate trading signals. Instead of just counting positive/negative words, it understands what events *mean* for markets.
A few resources to get you started if this is your first Flutter project:
Traditional sentiment analysis: "This news mentions 'partnership' → positive"
Augor: "This partnership expands market access but dilutes margins → mixed signal"
- [Lab: Write your first Flutter app](https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/codelab)
- [Cookbook: Useful Flutter samples](https://docs.flutter.dev/cookbook)
## Why?
For help getting started with Flutter development, view the
[online documentation](https://docs.flutter.dev/), which offers tutorials,
samples, guidance on mobile development, and a full API reference.
Traditional NLP methods are limited:
- Can't understand context or nuance
- Miss complex implications of business events
- Struggle with negation and sarcasm
LLMs can reason about *why* news matters, not just classify it as positive/negative.
## What it does
1. Aggregates news from multiple sources
2. Interprets business events (mergers, partnerships, product launches)
3. Generates trading signals based on reasoned analysis
4. Backtests performance against traditional approaches
## Author
Benjamin Watt
Supervisor: Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
University of Essex