Project Maui Using News Sentiment to Predict Stock Price Movements
Ava Lee, Brody Wacker, Devin Nigro, Richard Bertrand
Project Goal
Original Goal
Actual Goal
Data
Limitations
Sources
News Sentiment Model
Machine Learning Model
Is the glass half full?
Actual vs. OLS Predicted Returns for Disney over the Past 5 Days
Next Steps
With more time, we would have done the following:
Questions?
Appendix
What is the predicted return (in %) if prediction is -1 and actual move is -0.005?
What does this mean?
3-layer Neural Network Model
Gradient Boosting
Decision Trees New vs. Old
New
Old
Predictions on
Positive vs. Negative News
Sample Model Outputs