Abstract: The sentimental stock market is the main reason for the high degree of uncertainty in the market trend. The stock trend prediction method using historical data directly is difficult to adapt to the variability of market sentiment, and the effect is not ideal in practical application. Aiming at the problem that it is difficult to predict the turning point of stock market due to the instability of market sentiment, a hidden semi-Markov model stock turning point prediction method based on sentiment vector(SV-HSMM) is proposed. Firstly, for market sentiment is not observable, the main features related to market sentiment are selected and fused into market sentiment by Markov blanket. Secondly, the HSMM is used to model the market environment, and the structural relations among market sentiment, market state and state duration are constructed. Furthermore, sentiment vector is introduced to smooth the variability of sentiment, and Kullback-Leibler(KL) distance is used to quantify sentiment heat. Finally, the dynamic inference of HSMM is used to predict the turning point of stock market. Experimental results show that the sentiment vector method has better prediction effect.
Keywords: market sentiment; sentiment vector; hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM); Kullback-Leibler (KL) distance