Predicting the Effects of News Sentiments on the Stock Market

Stock market forecasting is very important in the planning of business activities. Stock price prediction has attracted many researchers in multiple disciplines including computer science, statistics, economics, finance, and operations research. Recent studies have shown that the vast amount of online information in the public domain such as Wikipedia usage pattern, news stories from the mainstream media, and social media discussions can have an observable effect on investors opinions towards financial markets. The reliability of the computational models on stock market prediction is important as it is very sensitive to the economy and can directly lead to financial loss. In this paper, we retrieved, extracted, and analyzed the effects of news sentiments on the stock market. Our main contributions include the development of a sentiment analysis dictionary for the financial sector, the development of a dictionary-based sentiment analysis model, and the evaluation of the model for gauging the effects of news sentiments on stocks for the pharmaceutical market. Using only news sentiments, we achieved a directional accuracy of 70.59% in predicting the trends in short-term stock price movement.Comment: 4 page

Relationship between degree of efficiency and prediction in stock price changes

This study investigates empirically whether the degree of stock market efficiency is related to the prediction power of future price change using the indices of twenty seven stock markets. Efficiency refers to weak-form efficient market hypothesis (EMH) in terms of the information of past price changes. The prediction power corresponds to the hit-rate, which is the rate of the consistency between the direction of actual price change and that of predicted one, calculated by the nearest neighbor prediction method (NN method) using the out-of-sample. In this manuscript, the Hurst exponent and the approximate entropy (ApEn) are used as the quantitative measurements of the degree of efficiency. The relationship between the Hurst exponent, reflecting the various time correlation property, and the ApEn value, reflecting the randomness in the time series, shows negative correlation. However, the average prediction power on the direction of future price change has the strongly positive correlation with the Hurst exponent, and the negative correlation with the ApEn. Therefore, the market index with less market efficiency has higher prediction power for future price change than one with higher market efficiency when we analyze the market using the past price change pattern. Furthermore, we show that the Hurst exponent, a measurement of the long-term memory property, provides more significant information in terms of prediction of future price changes than the ApEn and the NN method.Comment: 10 page

Stock Trend Prediction Using Candlestick Charting and Ensemble Machine Learning Techniques with a Novelty Feature Engineering Scheme

Stock market forecasting is a knotty challenging task due to the highly noisy, nonparametric, complex and chaotic nature of the stock price time series. With a simple eight-trigram feature engineering scheme of the inter-day candlestick patterns, we construct a novel ensemble machine learning framework for daily stock pattern prediction, combining traditional candlestick charting with the latest artificial intelligence methods. Several machine learning techniques, including deep learning methods, are applied to stock data to predict the direction of the closing price. This framework can give a suitable machine learning prediction method for each pattern based on the trained results. The investment strategy is constructed according to the ensemble machine learning techniques. Empirical results from 2000 to 2017 of China’s stock market confirm that our feature engineering has effective predictive power, with a prediction accuracy of more than 60% for some trend patterns. Various measures such as big data, feature standardization, and elimination of abnormal data can effectively solve data noise. An investment strategy based on our forecasting framework excels in both individual stock and portfolio performance theoretically. However, transaction costs have a significant impact on investment. Additional technical indicators can improve the forecast accuracy to varying degrees. Technical indicators, especially momentum indicators, can improve forecasting accuracy in most cases

A Model for Stock Price Prediction Using the Soft Computing Approach

A number of research efforts had been devoted to forecasting stock price based on technical indicators which rely purely on historical stock price data. However, the performances of such technical indicators have not always satisfactory. The fact is, there are other influential factors that can affect the direction of stock market which form the basis of market experts’ opinion such as interest rate, inflation rate, foreign exchange rate, business sector, management caliber, investors’ confidence, government policy and political effects, among others. In this study, the effect of using hybrid market indicators such as technical and fundamental parameters as well as experts’ opinions for stock price prediction was examined. Values of variables representing these market hybrid indicators were fed into the artificial neural network (ANN) model for stock price prediction. The empirical results obtained with published stock data show that the proposed model is effective in improving the accuracy of stock price prediction. Also, the performance of the neural network predictive model developed in this study was compared with the conventional Box-Jenkins autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model which has been widely used for time series forecasting. Our findings revealed that ARIMA models cannot be effectively engaged profitably for stock price prediction. It was also observed that the pattern of ARIMA forecasting models were not satisfactory. The developed stock price predictive model with the ANN-based soft computing approach demonstrated superior performance over the ARIMA models; indeed, the actual and predicted value of the developed stock price predictive model were quite close

Stock Market Prediction Using Time Series

A stock market is a public market for the trading of company stock. It is an organized set-up with a regulatory body and the members who trade in shares are registered with the stock market and regulatory body SEBI. Since stock market data are highly time-variant and are normally in a nonlinear pattern, predicting the future price of a stock is highly challenging. Prediction provides knowledgeable information regarding the current status of the stock price movement. Thus this can be utilized in decision making for customers in finalizing whether to buy or sell the particular shares of a given stock. Many researchers have been carried out for predicting stock market price using various data mining techniques. The past data of the selected stock will be used for building and training the models. The results from the model will be used for comparison with the real data to ascertain the accuracy of the model

Stock prices, firm size, and changes in the federal funds rate target

The Fed targeted the federal funds rate during the period 1974-79; they returned to that procedure in the late 1980s and have maintained it since then. For both periods, we find that stock prices reacted significantly to unanticipated changes in the federal funds rate target, but not to anticipated ones. Consistent with the prediction of imperfect capital market theories, the estimated impact of monetary shocks is significantly larger for small stocks than for big stocks in the late 1970s, when business conditions were typically bad. However, the "size effect" is not present in the 1990s, when business conditions were typically good. We document a similar pattern using portfolios formed according to the book-to-market value ratio. Our evidence of the state-dependent monetary effect provides support for recent rationales about the anomalous size and value premiums.Stock - Prices ; Federal funds rate ; Corporations

Development of 2D Curve-Fitting Genetic/Gene-Expression Programming Technique for Efficient Time-series Financial Forecasting

Stock market prediction is of immense interest to trading companies and buyers due to high profit margins. Therefore, precise prediction of the measure of increase or decrease of stock prices also plays an important role in buying/selling activities. This research presents a specialised extension to the genetic algorithms (GA) known as the genetic programming (GP) and gene expression programming (GEP) to explore and investigate the outcome of the GEP criteria on the stock market price prediction. The research presented in this paper aims at the modelling and prediction of short-to-medium term stock value fluctuations in the market via genetically tuned stock market parameters. The technique uses hierarchically defined GP and GEP techniques to tune algebraic functions representing the fittest equation for stock market activities. The proposed methodology is evaluated against five well-known stock market companies with each having its own trading circumstances during the past 20+ years. The proposed GEP/GP methodologies were evaluated based on variable window/population sizes, selection methods, and Elitism, Rank and Roulette selection methods. The Elitism-based approach showed promising results with a low error-rate in the resultant pattern matching with an overall accuracy of 93.46% for short term 5-day and 92.105 for medium-term 56-day tradin

Teknik Jaringan Syaraf Tiruan Feedforward Untuk Prediksi Harga Saham Pada Pasar Modal Indonesia

To predict the condition of stock price, several technical analysis models have been used and expanded such as MACD, Fourier Transform, Accumulator Swing Index , Stochastic Oscillator etc. For input they are using the various prices such as Open, high, low , close , volume, BID, ASK price, and the output is a graphic that shows the decision whether to sell, buy or hold. Another method to determine the stock price by using Fundamental Analysis method. Fundamental method is an analysis that is based on the ratio or financial report from the existing company. Neural Network System Technology has been implemented in various applications especially in introduce the pattern. This power has attracted several people to use Neural Network for medical, Finance, Investment and marketing. Assuming that the prediction of the output system (next output prediction) is deterministic, than the suitable N.N model to predict it is Feed Forward. The prediction of the stock price is the complex interaction between unstable market and unknown random processes factor. The data from stock price can be determined by time series. If we have daily data from a certain period, for example : Xt(t = 1,2,...) than the stock price for the next period (t+h) can be predicted (the timing used can be in hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly). To get the good prediction, the inputs from several aspects of the share prices have to be input in Neural Network after that the weighing principal can be adapted to minimize the wrong prediction in the first future steps. By using the final weighing, an action is done to done to minimize the total error in the second future steps. Due to that, the risk of Investor's decision to sell or buy the stock can be minimized. This paper will discuss on how to use and implement Time Series Neural Network to predict the stock market in Semen Gresik (SMGR) and Gudang Garam (GGRM

A CIMB Stock Price Prediction Case Study with Feedforward Neural Network and Recurrent Neural Network

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is one of the popular techniques used in stock market price prediction. ANN is able to learn from data pattern and continuously improves the result without prior information about the model. The two popular variants of ANN architecture widely used are Feedforward Neural Network (FFNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). The literature shows that the performance of these two ANN variants is studied dependent. Hence, this paper aims to compare the performance of FFNN and RNN in predicting the closing price of CIMB stock which is traded on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE). This paper describes the design of FFNN and RNN and discusses the performances of both ANNs