Skip to Content
The Handbook of News Analytics in Finance
book

The Handbook of News Analytics in Finance

by Gautam Mitra, Leela Mitra
May 2011
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
12h 28m
English
Wiley
Content preview from The Handbook of News Analytics in Finance

6.8 DISCUSSION OF RNSE AND PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION

We have shown that it is possible to capitalize on news by looking at days on which a large amount of novel, very polar news occurs. The simulation is relatively unconstrained by the standards of institutional portfolios, to allow the signals to drive the process. Further increases in performance (and reductions in risk) can be implemented by

  • Incorporation of quantitative price, volatility, and volume analtyics The human reaction to complicated, important news is conditioned by the market environment in which the human is processing the information, often called “market color”. Incorporating this information from “traditional” quant sources can only improve “quantextual” portfolios.

    image

    Figure 6.22. Rolling one-quarter correlation of extreme sentiment simulated portfolio with the S&P 500.

  • Further news differentiation RNSE provides a very rich picture of the news as it is created and flows across the wire. Topic and product codes, headlines, and item types are probably all useful for differentiating news that presents an arbitrage opportunity from news that is merely stating prior price movements. There is also a great deal of information to be inferred from content, using either supervised (human in loop) or machine learning.
  • Higher frequency trading The results here were on daily intervals. With “information leakage” a significant ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Market Risk Analysis Volume I: Quantitative Methods in Finance

Market Risk Analysis Volume I: Quantitative Methods in Finance

Carol Alexander
Equity Markets, Valuation, and Analysis

Equity Markets, Valuation, and Analysis

H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Halil Kiymaz

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780470666791Purchase book