Ben Hasselgren
Using Social Media & Sentiment Analysis to Make Investment Decisions
Hasselgren, Ben; Chrysoulas, Christos; Pitropakis, Nikolaos; Buchanan, William J.
Authors
Christos Chrysoulas
Dr Nick Pitropakis N.Pitropakis@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Prof Bill Buchanan B.Buchanan@napier.ac.uk
Professor
Abstract
Making investment decisions by utilizing sentiment data from social media (SM) is starting to become a more tangible concept. There has been a broad investigation into this field of study over the last decade, and many of the findings have promising results. However, there is still an opportunity for continued research, firstly, in finding the most effective way to obtain relevant sentiment data from SM, then building a system to measure the sentiment, and finally visualizing it to help users make investment decisions. Furthermore, much of the existing work fails to factor SM metrics into the sentiment score effectively. This paper presents a novel prototype as a contribution to the field of study. In our work, a detailed overview of the topic is given in the form of a literature and technical review. Next, a prototype is designed and developed using the findings from the previous analysis. On top of that, a novel approach to factor SM metrics into the sentiment score is presented, with the goal of measuring the collective sentiment of the data effectively. To test the proposed approach, we only used popular stocks from the S&P500 to ensure large volumes of SM sentiment was available, adding further insight into findings, which we then discuss in our evaluation.
Citation
Hasselgren, B., Chrysoulas, C., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2023). Using Social Media & Sentiment Analysis to Make Investment Decisions. Future Internet, 15(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15010005
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 20, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 23, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2023 |
Deposit Date | Jan 2, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 4, 2023 |
Journal | Future Internet |
Publisher | MDPI |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | 5 |
Series ISSN | 1999-5903 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15010005 |
Keywords | social media, sentiment analysis, sentiment score, stock market, investment decisions |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2988181 |
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