Social listening to predict stock movements in popular and closely followed stocks in the US equities market

 We are investigating if social listening and sentiment analysis can help predict stock movements. We have focused on the top 100 most ‘popular’ stocks to ensure an adequate base for the social listening. You can see the definition of what we deem ‘popular’ here. We exclude indices and ETFs: https://banks.org/most-popular-stocks/ You will be provided with data sets with stock information (adjusted close, intraday high + low, and volume), and with social listening data sets pertaining to the stocks (mentions, net sentiment, positive sentiment and negative sentiment). Tools to extract data that were used were Thomson Reuters Datastream for stock data and Talkwalker for social listening. You are tasked with analyzing the data using relevant statistical models and analyses. If you find other tests that are more appropriate, then please go ahead: 1: Descriptions of measurements and tests (OLS?, VAR?, LSTM RNN?) 2: Data selection 3: Data analysis and some econometric considerations (Descriptive statistics, Autocorrelation, Heteroscedasticity, Multicollinearity, Outliers, Sample selection bias?, OLS?, Stationarity / Dickey-Fuller, VAR?, AIC (Akaike Information Criterion), BIC (Bayesian Information Criterion), LSTM RNN?, Predicting power of the model) 4: Conclusion and suggestions for further research