We develop FinText, a novel, state-of-the-art, financial word embedding from Dow Jones Newswires Text News Feed Database. Incorporating this word embedding in a machine learning model produces a substantial increase in volatility forecasting performance on days with volatility jumps for 23...

This paper examines, for the first time, the performance of machine learning models in realised volatility forecasting using big data sets such as LOBSTER limit order books and news stories from Dow Jones News Wires for 28 NASDAQ stocks over a sample period of July 27, 2007, to November 18,...

The recent financial crisis has accentuated the fact that extreme outcomes have been overlooked and not dealt with adequately. While extreme value theories have existed for a long time, the multivariate variant is difficult to handle in the financial markets due to the prevalent...