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Outsider trading: trading on twitter sentiment
This study aims to establish if a relationship between the investor sentiment generated from social media posts, such as Tweets, and the return on securities exists. If a relationship exists, one would be able to obtain an informational advantage from public information and outperform the market on...
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| author | Stevens, Joshua |
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| description | This study aims to establish if a relationship between the investor sentiment generated from social media posts, such as Tweets, and the return on securities exists. If a relationship exists, one would be able to obtain an informational advantage from public information and outperform the market on a risk-adjusted basis. This would give the “outsider” information processed the predictive power of insider information, hence the title of the paper. The study makes use of Bloomberg's social activity data, which through natural language processing, allows for investor sentiment to be obtained by analysing a combination of Twitter and Stock Twits posts. This paper makes use of a three-prong approach, firstly examining if investor sentiment is a predictor of next-day returns. Next, an event study methodology is used to examine the optimal holding period, which can further be expanded to test market efficiency. Lastly, this paper considers the asymmetric risk aversion as outlined by Kahneman and Tversky (1979). Results show that there is little to no correlation between sentiment and next day returns. There is evidence for a multi-day holding period being optimal but statistically insignificant and there is no evidence found for asymmetric risk aversion. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/37802 Outsider trading: trading on twitter sentiment Stevens, Joshua van Rensburg, Paul sentiment analysis twitter event study This study aims to establish if a relationship between the investor sentiment generated from social media posts, such as Tweets, and the return on securities exists. If a relationship exists, one would be able to obtain an informational advantage from public information and outperform the market on a risk-adjusted basis. This would give the “outsider” information processed the predictive power of insider information, hence the title of the paper. The study makes use of Bloomberg's social activity data, which through natural language processing, allows for investor sentiment to be obtained by analysing a combination of Twitter and Stock Twits posts. This paper makes use of a three-prong approach, firstly examining if investor sentiment is a predictor of next-day returns. Next, an event study methodology is used to examine the optimal holding period, which can further be expanded to test market efficiency. Lastly, this paper considers the asymmetric risk aversion as outlined by Kahneman and Tversky (1979). Results show that there is little to no correlation between sentiment and next day returns. There is evidence for a multi-day holding period being optimal but statistically insignificant and there is no evidence found for asymmetric risk aversion. 2023-04-20T13:44:01Z 2023-04-20T13:44:01Z 2022 2023-04-20T13:42:38Z Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37802 eng application/pdf Department of Finance and Tax Faculty of Commerce |
| spellingShingle | sentiment analysis event study Stevens, Joshua Outsider trading: trading on twitter sentiment |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Outsider trading: trading on twitter sentiment |
| title_full | Outsider trading: trading on twitter sentiment |
| title_fullStr | Outsider trading: trading on twitter sentiment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Outsider trading: trading on twitter sentiment |
| title_short | Outsider trading: trading on twitter sentiment |
| title_sort | outsider trading trading on twitter sentiment |
| topic | sentiment analysis event study |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37802 |
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