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Title: EmTract: Investor Emotions and Market Behavior
(Submitted on 7 Dec 2021 (v1), revised 11 Jun 2022 (this version, v2), latest version 21 Jun 2023 (v3))
Abstract: We develop a tool that extracts emotions from social media text data. Our methodology has three main advantages. First, it is tailored for financial context; second, it incorporates key aspects of social media data, such as non-standard phrases, emojis and emoticons; and third, it operates by sequentially learning a latent representation that includes features such as word order, word usage, and local context. This tool, along with a user guide is available at: this https URL Using EmTract, we explore the relationship between investor emotions expressed on social media and asset prices. We document a number of interesting insights. First, we confirm some of the findings of controlled laboratory experiments relating investor emotions to asset price movements. Second, we show that investor emotions are predictive of daily price movements. These impacts are larger when volatility or short interest are higher, and when institutional ownership or liquidity are lower. Third, increased investor enthusiasm prior to the IPO contributes to the large first-day return and long-run underperformance of IPO stocks. To corroborate our results, we provide a number of robustness checks, including using an alternative emotion model. Our findings reinforce the intuition that emotions and market dynamics are closely related, and highlight the importance of considering investor emotions when assessing a stock's short-term value.
Submission history
From: Domonkos Vamossy [view email][v1] Tue, 7 Dec 2021 18:01:35 GMT (2441kb,D)
[v2] Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:30:54 GMT (0kb,I)
[v3] Wed, 21 Jun 2023 22:48:39 GMT (119kb,D)
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