This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Saturday, 01/23/2016. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!
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[Academic Paper] Using Financial Reports to Predict Stock Market Trends With Machine Learning TechniquesStock markets as a fundamental component of financial markets play an important role in the countries economies. The factors that a ? ect the price of stocks include the political situations, company performance, economics activities, and some other unpredicted events. The traditional prediction approach is based on historical nu- merical data such as the previous trend, trading volume,
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The Few Rule the Many Power Laws in Market Returns [Investor’s Field Guide]As index investing has grown in popularity, investors focus more and more on the markets overall return and less on the return of its component parts (individual stocks). But underneath the hood of each market index we find many inequalities. The top 20% of stocks represent 85% of the overall markets size in 2015. Similarly, the top 20% of the stocks account for 85% of the markets total