Predicting Daily Trends in the Lima Stock Exchange General Index Using Economic Indicators and Financial News Sentiments

Adrian Ulloa, Soledad Espezua, Julio Villavicencio, Oscar Miranda, Edwin Villanueva

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Abstract

Predicting the future trend of the Lima Stock Exchange market is challenging because of its high volatility, transaction costs, and illiquidity. In this work, we investigate machine learning models able to use technical indicators, economic variables, and financial news sentiments to forecast the daily return trend of the S&P/BVL Peru General Index. To the best of our knowledge, no other published S&P/BVL predicting tool considered these joint sources of information as relevant input features. To do so, fifteen economic indicators relevant to the local market and sentiment-tagged financial news headlines were used as extra input features for multiple machine learning classification models and feature selection methods. In addition, the performance of the static learning approach (the only one used for this particular problem so far) was compared against an online learning approach, which could dynamically better adapt to such a volatile, emergent market. The results showed an increase in performance when using the economic variables and news sentiment in comparison to existing predicting tools of the local market. When comparing both learning approaches, online learning yielded better predictive accuracy than its static counterpart. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first effort to include all these novel features for predicting trends in the Lima Stock Exchange.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Management and Big Data - 8th Annual International Conference, SIMBig 2021, Proceedings
EditorsJuan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, Jorge Valverde-Rebaza, Eduardo Díaz, Denisse Muñante, Carlos Gavidia-Calderon, Alan Demétrius Valejo, Hugo Alatrista-Salas
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages34-49
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783031044465
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event8th Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 1 Dec 20213 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1577 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference8th Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period1/12/213/12/21

Keywords

  • Machine learning
  • News sentiment analysis
  • S&P/BVL
  • Stock market trend prediction

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