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Mining Illegal Insider Trading of Stocks: A Proactive Approach

Statistical Finance 2019-10-01 v3 Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

Illegal insider trading of stocks is based on releasing non-public information (e.g., new product launch, quarterly financial report, acquisition or merger plan) before the information is made public. Detecting illegal insider trading is difficult due to the complex, nonlinear, and non-stationary nature of the stock market. In this work, we present an approach that detects and predicts illegal insider trading proactively from large heterogeneous sources of structured and unstructured data using a deep-learning based approach combined with discrete signal processing on the time series data. In addition, we use a tree-based approach that visualizes events and actions to aid analysts in their understanding of large amounts of unstructured data. Using existing data, we have discovered that our approach has a good success rate in detecting illegal insider trading patterns.

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@article{arxiv.1807.00939,
  title  = {Mining Illegal Insider Trading of Stocks: A Proactive Approach},
  author = {Sheikh Rabiul Islam and Sheikh Khaled Ghafoor and William Eberle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00939},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Accepted in IEEE BigData 2018