This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Wednesday, 05/06/2020. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!
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Sentiment analysis: ifo business climate data [Grzegorz Link]Sentiment analysis is one of the investing tools I'm most fond of. There are multiple ways of measuring sentiment: from basic investor surveys to advanced text mining techniques, but one of the most robust and long-term datasets is ifo Institute's business climate sentiment polls.[4] Sentiment analysis: ifo business climate data The data is available from 1991 (Germany's
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Can neural networks predict the stock market just by reading newspapers? [Quant Dare]Markets are said to be driven by randomness, but this does not imply that they are 100% random and thus, completely unpredictable. In the end, there are always people behind investments and many of them are making decisions based on what they read in newspapers. We will be trying to estimate the returns of a time series, namely Bitcoin, only using text data from relevant articles. BERT, an NLP
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How to download fundamentals data with Python (h/t @PyQuantNews) [TheAutomatic.net]In this post we will explore how to download fundamentals data with Python. Well be extracting fundamentals data from Yahoo Finance using the yahoo_fin package. For more on yahoo_fin, including installation instructions, check out its full documentation here. Getting started Now, lets import the stock_info module from yahoo_fin. This will provide us with the functionality we need to scrape
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Pairs Trading Literature Review [Robot Wealth]This post summarises the key lessons of the academic literature that has been published on pairs trading. The key themes are highlighted at the end of the page. Pair Trading Literature Review Gatev, Goetzmann, Rouwenhorst Pairs Trading: Performance of a Relative Value Arbitrage Strategy https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=141615 This is the first meaningful academic paper