Mining User-Generated Financial Content to Predict Stock Price Movements

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Mining User-Generated Financial Content to Predict Stock Price Movements. / Mastel, Andreas; Jacobs, Jürgen.
Lüneburg: Universität Lüneburg, 2012. (FInAL; Band 22, Nr. 1).

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Mastel, A & Jacobs, J 2012 'Mining User-Generated Financial Content to Predict Stock Price Movements' FInAL, Nr. 1, Bd. 22, Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg.

APA

Mastel, A., & Jacobs, J. (2012). Mining User-Generated Financial Content to Predict Stock Price Movements. (FInAL; Band 22, Nr. 1). Universität Lüneburg.

Vancouver

Mastel A, Jacobs J. Mining User-Generated Financial Content to Predict Stock Price Movements. Lüneburg: Universität Lüneburg. 2012 Dez. (FInAL; 1).

Bibtex

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abstract = "Sentiment extraction from user-generated online content to predict stock price movements has become an active research field. This paper gives an overview of common approaches to this topic and analyzes the content generated by the financial social network Seekingalpha.com. The first finding is that a large proportion of users{\textquoteright} attention is focused on only a few stocks. Regarding these stocks it can be shown that sentiment is significantly driven by past abnormal performance. Only the sentiment of premium users contains some degree of predictivepower. Generally, the users{\textquoteright} sentiment is consistent with a na{\"i}vemomentum mentality. ",
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