Developing Prediction Models on London Stock Exchange (LSE) Equitiesand Indicies using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Data Mining

I am to import ten years worth of amassed historical data on news events, price movement of equities and public sentiment metrics to Microsoft Azure platform for study and analysis through the latest Data Mining techniques with an Economics point of view to uncover the hidden correlation and casualty between events and price movement of global markets in multiple timeframes (three hours, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly). Predictive models based on the studies will be developed, compared, evaluated, and incorporated into industry partners website as real-time market news analysis engine to be offered as a paid service.

Faculty Supervisor:

Fred Popowich

Student:

Bernard Lin

Partner:

EOTPRO

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Simon Fraser University