UW WatRISQ/Columbia University (IEOR) Quantitative Finance Seminar Series

Manhattan Institute of Management - 3rd Floor
Thursday, Apr 19, 2018 at 6:00 PM EDT 
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Event Details

Join us on April 19th for a joint seminar hosted by WatRISQ, University of Waterloo and Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) Columbia University : Machine Learning & Sentiment Analysis in Finance for Statistical Arbitrage presented by Dr. Arun Verma, Quantitative Research Solutions at Bloomberg.

Abstract: The high volume and time sensitivity/dependence of news and social media stories necessitates automated processing to extract actionable information, while the unstructured nature of textual information presents challenges that are comfortably addressed by machine-learning techniques. We have applied a novel machine learning technique combining 3 separate support vector machines. In this talk we examine these scores, focusing on using news and social sentiment information in trading strategies that can achieve good risk-adjusted returns.

Speakers

Dr. Arun Verma
Bloomberg
Quantitative Research Solutions

Location

Manhattan Institute of Management - 3rd Floor
110 William Street New York, NY 10038 US

Tickets

Type
Price
Dr, Arun Verma Seminar
Free

Organizer Details

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Jenn Bentley
Manager, Events and Engagement
WatSPEED
jennifer.bentley@uwaterloo.ca