StockGPT: A GenAI Model for Stock Prediction and Trading

Authors: Dat Mai

arXiv: 2404.05101v3 - DOI (q-fin.CP)
26 pages, 3 figures, 8 tables
License: CC BY 4.0

Abstract: This paper introduces StockGPT, an autoregressive ``number'' model trained and tested on 70 million daily U.S.\ stock returns over nearly 100 years. Treating each return series as a sequence of tokens, StockGPT automatically learns the hidden patterns predictive of future returns via its attention mechanism. On a held-out test sample from 2001 to 2023, daily and monthly rebalanced long-short portfolios formed from StockGPT predictions yield strong performance. The StockGPT-based portfolios span momentum and long-/short-term reversals, eliminating the need for manually crafted price-based strategies, and yield highly significant alphas against leading stock market factors, suggesting a novel AI pricing effect. This highlights the immense promise of generative AI in surpassing human in making complex financial investment decisions.

Submitted to arXiv on 07 Apr. 2024

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