Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing Based FinTech prediction

Financial markets including stocks and forex constantly fluctuate. Apart from individual company performances, various external factors such as human psychology of the masses, local and international news contribute to the dynamics of the markets. Forecasting the level of the impact of these factors on financial markets is a dream of many decision makers. Markets usually exit patterns which could be used to predict future movement of the markets, however, the manual analysis of such patterns is very laborious and subjective. The development of an artificial intelligent (AI) agent based on technical, fundamental and sentimental indicators can make this dream a reality.

AI has been shown to successfully unveil the hidden patterns in data. AI implementation to financial data can help to identify the social mood of the masses and thus the movement in financial markets, which in turn can lead to stabilising of the socionomics of the society.

Therefore, in this project, we anticipate studying the socionomics patterns by digging deep into the historical data and market reaction to predict the future direction of the markets. We will employ machine/deep learning to correctly identify the wave trends such as Elliott waves. We will also investigate the correlation and the level of the impact of news, human sentiments or company performances on a sector.

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Related Research Group(s)

Intelligent Data Analysis - Concerned with effective analysis of data involving artificial intelligence, dynamic systems, image and signal processing, optimisation, pattern recognition, statistics and visualisation.