Stock Movement Prediction from Tweets and Historical Prices

Yumo Xu, Shay B. Cohen


Abstract
Stock movement prediction is a challenging problem: the market is highly stochastic, and we make temporally-dependent predictions from chaotic data. We treat these three complexities and present a novel deep generative model jointly exploiting text and price signals for this task. Unlike the case with discriminative or topic modeling, our model introduces recurrent, continuous latent variables for a better treatment of stochasticity, and uses neural variational inference to address the intractable posterior inference. We also provide a hybrid objective with temporal auxiliary to flexibly capture predictive dependencies. We demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our proposed model on a new stock movement prediction dataset which we collected.
Anthology ID:
P18-1183
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1970–1979
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-1183
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-1183
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Cite (ACL):
Yumo Xu and Shay B. Cohen. 2018. Stock Movement Prediction from Tweets and Historical Prices. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1970–1979, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Stock Movement Prediction from Tweets and Historical Prices (Xu & Cohen, ACL 2018)
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Code
 yumoxu/stocknet-dataset
Data
StockNetAstock