Using Market Sentiment Analysis and Genetic Algorithm-Based Least Squares Support Vector Regression to Predict Gold Prices

Gold price prediction has long been a crucial and challenging research topic for gold investors. In conventional models, most scholars have used the historical gold price or economic indicators to forecast gold prices. The gold prices depend mainly on confidence in the current market. To reduce the time delay of economic indicators in this study, the daily online global gold news undergoes a text mining approach. An opinion score is generated by ascertaining the opinion polarity and words in the daily gold news. The opinion score represents the current market trends and used as an input predictor in the forecasting model. Subsequently, the least square support vector regression (LSSVR) that is optimized by the genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to train and predict the future gold price. The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) is adopted to evaluate the model performance. This study is the first to use the opinion score through text mining as an input predictor to GA-LSSVR in forecasting gold prices. The experiment results demonstrate that the input predictor, opinion score, can improve the predicting ability of GA-LSSVR model in terms of MAPE.

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