Predicting the Stock Market
*This project was never completed. It was a group Project for my Data Visualizations class, but my teammate and I were not able to see eye to eye. This is the work I contributed to the project. *
For almost a century, economists have tried to theorize the stock market trend. They could not find any relevant, predictable pattern and concluded that the stock market follows a random walk pattern. The 2013 Nobel Prized Fama developed the most famous theory in the 1970s. This theory is called the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), which asserts that information is fully incorporated into the price. In other words, stocks do not display any relevant information that can be used for predictions. However, some investors have made a fortune from the stock market, contradicting Fama’s theory.
In this project, we would like to verify the validity of the EMH. Under such theory, financial ratios could not be used for prediction. Yet, many financial advisors recommend the use of some. In this project, we will use the most widely used financial ratio to see if they impact the market trend.
To answer our questions, we will use a data set collected from Kaggle. The data set contains 4,000 listed stocks with their financial ratios. In total, they have 200 financial ratios, which is all the financial ratios that are out there. The time span of the data ranges from 2014 to 2018. It can be accessed using the following link:
Try to predict stocks' future performance leveraging 200+ financial indicators
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