Choosing News Topics to Explain Stock Market Returns

10/14/2020
by   Paul Glasserman, et al.
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We analyze methods for selecting topics in news articles to explain stock returns. We find, through empirical and theoretical results, that supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation (sLDA) implemented through Gibbs sampling in a stochastic EM algorithm will often overfit returns to the detriment of the topic model. We obtain better out-of-sample performance through a random search of plain LDA models. A branching procedure that reinforces effective topic assignments often performs best. We test methods on an archive of over 90,000 news articles about S P 500 firms.

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