Affiliation:
1. Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken 07030, New Jersey, USA
Abstract
This paper explores the power of news sentiment to predict financial returns, particularly the returns of a set of European stocks. Building on past decision support work going back to the Delphi method, this paper describes a text analysis expert weighting algorithm that aggregates the responses of both humans and algorithms by dynamically selecting the best answer according to previous performance. The proposed system is tested through an experiment in which ensembles of experts, crowds, and machines analyzed Thomson Reuters news stories and predicted the returns of the relevant stocks mentioned right after the stories appeared. In most cases, the expert weighting algorithm was better than or as good as the best algorithm or human. The algorithm’s capacity to dynamically select the best answers from humans and machines results in an evolving collective intelligence: the final decision is an aggregation of the best automated individual answers, some of which come from machines and some from humans. Additionally, this paper shows that the groups of humans, algorithms, and expert weighting algorithms have associated with them, particularly, news topics that these groups are good at making predictions from.
Funder
Stevens Institute of Technology
Subject
Multidisciplinary,General Computer Science
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