Stock chatter: Using stock sentiment to predict price direction

Algorithmic Finance

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 169-196

  Rechenthin, Michael ^a   Street, W Nick ^a   Srinivasan, Padmini ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

classification; equity; message boards; prediction; sentiment analysis; stock; tweet; Yahoo finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84932618099     PISSN: 21585571     EISSN: 21576203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AF-13025     Document Type: Article

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