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Applying RavenPack Sentiment to Forex Trading

April 25, 2023

A recent study on Forex trading shows combining RavenPack news sentiment and fundamental input variables in a Machine Learning model improves predicting USDBRL's 21-day return.

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The study by Alex Giulietti de Barros, Felipe Honório and Emerson Fernandes Loureiro showed that sentiment data has predictive power when applied to forex trading over a 21 days horizon. The news sentiment was pre-processed and combined with fundamental data, and a basket of emerging market currencies.

In particular, they found that:

  • The sentiment-enhanced model outperformed the benchmark in every year between 2016 and 2020, with a Sharpe Ratio of 2.27 vs. 0.05 for the benchmark.

  • Results showed that RavenPack news sentiment was able to enhance the strategy performance, both relative to a buy-and-hold strategy, as well as to a pure fundamental model.

  • chart overall returns



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