SFPAD: Sentiment-driven Firm Pricing Anomaly Detection algorithm and application

Senyuan Zheng, Vincent C.S. Lee, Zhaolin Guan

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Abstract

In January of 2021, the stock price of GameStop Corp ascended 20 times under the influence of social media in a mere two weeks' time, becoming the first-ever case of sentiment-driven short squeeze. This caused certain stock prices to deviate significantly from their fundamental value, and hence, had an impact on the market efficiency. To help finance policymakers, regulators, and investment analysts to prepare for cases alike in the future, our study investigates a Machine Learning method of detecting sentiment-driven firm pricing anomaly using data collected from the GameStop frenzy. The proposed method combines anomaly pattern detection with sentiment analysis, which the latter is used to identify conditions that are considered crucial to the presence of sentiment-driven pricing. In our experiments, the adapted Machine Learning (SFPAD) method was able to outperform traditional detection technique when applied to historical time series.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
EditorsShusaku Tsumoto, Yukio Ohsawa, Lei Chen, Dirk Van den Poel, Xiaohua Hu, Yoichi Motomura, Takuya Takagi, Lingfei Wu, Ying Xie, Akihiro Abe, Vijay Raghavan
Place of PublicationPiscataway NJ USA
PublisherIEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages3567-3576
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781665480451
ISBN (Print)9781665480468
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventIEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) 2022 - Osaka, Japan
Duration: 17 Dec 202220 Dec 2022
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10020192/proceeding (Proceedings)

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) 2022
Abbreviated titleBig Data 2022
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOsaka
Period17/12/2220/12/22
Internet address

Keywords

  • Anomaly pattern detection
  • Machine Learning
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Sentiment-driven Pricing
  • Streaming data

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