Title
Combining News Sentiment and Technical Analysis to Predict Stock Trend Reversal
Abstract
The use of machine learning techniques to predict the next-day stock direction is established. To make prediction models more robust, a common approach is to combine historical time series and news sentiment analysis. Most of the trading simulations performed in this field rely on trend following strategies, which are aimed at identifying and following an ongoing price trend that is likely to persist in the next days. Conversely, a more limited effort has been devoted to applying machine learning techniques to predict trend reversal, i.e., changes in price directions. This paper investigates the relevance of news information and time series descriptors derived from technical analysis to predict trend reversal in the next days. It compares the performance of various classification models trained on (i) technical indicators, which indicate short-term overbought or oversold conditions, (ii) news sentiment descriptors, which express the opinion of the financial community, (iii) the historical time series, to highlight recurrences in price trends, and (iv) a combination of the above. The results achieved on an 11-year dataset related to the stocks of the U.S. S&P 500 index show that the strategies combining the historical values of news sentiment and stock price indicators averagely perform better than all the other tested combinations. Hence, news information is worth considering by trend reversal strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICDMW.2019.00079
2019 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)
Keywords
Field
DocType
news sentiment analysis,quantitative trading,classification,trend reversal prediction
Econometrics,Stock price,Quantitative investing,Sentiment analysis,Computer science,Trend following,Artificial intelligence,Predictive modelling,Stock (geology),Machine learning,Technical analysis
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2375-9232
978-1-7281-4897-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giuseppe Attanasio102.03
Luca Cagliero228531.63
Paolo Garza342639.13
Elena Baralis41319186.33