FinImpact Direction1D V4

This repository contains a custom Hugging Face/PyTorch model for financial text impact modeling. It combines a financial language encoder with market context features through a gated fusion head. This v4 checkpoint is trained primarily as a 1-day market-impact signal model and adds return-aware auxiliary losses for directional-score alignment and confidence calibration.

Task

Input:

• Financial news title/body
• Symbol-level market context available before the event date

Outputs:

• direction_1d: bearish / neutral / bullish future 1-day abnormal market reaction
• auxiliary diagnostics: sentiment, direction_5d, and volatility heads are still exported, but their default loss weights are zero in this v4 run.

Architecture

• Encoder: microsoft/deberta-v3-large
• Pooling: attention-mask-aware mean pooling over last_hidden_state
• Text branch: LayerNorm -> Linear -> GELU -> Dropout
• Numeric branch: LayerNorm -> Linear -> GELU -> Dropout
• Fusion: learned sigmoid gate between text and numeric branches
• Heads: 1D direction classification head plus auxiliary diagnostic heads
• Return-aware training: P(bullish) - P(bearish) is softly aligned to realized 1-day abnormal return sign/magnitude

This is intentionally not an embedding-only classifier. The model fine-tunes a contextual encoder and learns a supervised 1-day market-impact boundary.

Training Data

News source:

• NickyNicky/finance-financialmodelingprep-stock-news-sentiments-rss-feed
• Fields used: symbol, publishedDate, title, text, sentiment, sentimentScore

Price source:

• siddharthmb/stocks-ohlcv
• Daily close data used to build lagged market features and future-return labels.

Training rows after join: 13930

Time split:

• train: 10865
• validation: 1532
• test: 1533

Symbols:

AAPL, ABNB, ADBE, ADI, ADP, AMAT, AMD, AMZN, ARKK, ASML, AVGO, BA, BABA, BAC, BIDU, BMY, CAT, CMCSA, COIN, COST, CRM, CSCO, CVX, DHR, DIS, ELF, GE, GM, GOOGL, HD, IBM, INTC, IOVA, JNJ, JPM, KO, LULU, MA, MCD, MDB, META, MRNA, MSFT, MU, NFLX, NKE, NVDA, ORCL, PEP, PFE, PLTR, PYPL, QCOM, RCL, SHOP, SNOW, SPOT, TGT, TSLA, TSM, TXN, UAL, UBER, UNH, UPS, WMT, XOM, ZM

Numeric Features

• source_sentiment_score
• sentiment_abs_score
• site_benzinga
• site_globenewswire
• site_yahoo_finance
• site_marketwatch
• text_char_len
• title_char_len
• is_after_close
• is_premarket
• is_market_hours
• published_hour_sin
• published_hour_cos
• ret_1d_lag
• ret_5d_lag
• ret_20d_lag
• vol_5d
• vol_20d
• vol_60d
• vol_ratio_5_20
• drawdown_20d
• volume_z_20d
• sector_code
• market_ret_1d_lag
• market_ret_5d_lag
• sector_ret_1d_lag
• sector_ret_5d_lag
• beta_market_60d
• beta_sector_60d

All numeric features are fit/scaled on the training split only.

Label Construction

• sentiment comes from the source dataset label.
• direction_1d is generated from future 1-day beta-adjusted abnormal log return after the event anchor date.
• direction_5d is generated from future 5-day beta-adjusted abnormal log return.
• A return is neutral when it falls inside a volatility-adjusted threshold.
• volatility is based on train-split tertiles of future absolute 5-day return.

Event anchoring shifts after-close UTC news to the next calendar day and uses the next available trading date. Duplicate same-symbol same-day event titles are removed before training.

Test Metrics

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    "predicted_class_counts": {
      "bearish": 0,
      "neutral": 1533,
      "bullish": 0
    },
    "true_class_counts": {
      "bearish": 110,
      "neutral": 15,
      "bullish": 1408
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    "brier_score": 1.5716914553389048
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    "macro_precision": 0.2797514006239241,
    "macro_recall": 0.30693224852151285,
    "macro_f1": 0.28541099148120913,
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    ],
    "predicted_class_counts": {
      "bearish": 209,
      "neutral": 526,
      "bullish": 798
    },
    "true_class_counts": {
      "bearish": 460,
      "neutral": 436,
      "bullish": 637
    },
    "expected_calibration_error": 0.03496117605077468,
    "brier_score": 0.6723385830557309
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  "direction_5d": {
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    "macro_precision": 0.28120269843193446,
    "macro_recall": 0.33741824434028733,
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    "predicted_class_counts": {
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      "neutral": 929,
      "bullish": 604
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    "true_class_counts": {
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      "neutral": 864,
      "bullish": 403
    },
    "expected_calibration_error": 0.024249568105288305,
    "brier_score": 0.633983250156182
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  "volatility": {
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    "macro_precision": 0.13307240704500978,
    "macro_recall": 0.3333333333333333,
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    "confusion_matrix": [
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    "predicted_class_counts": {
      "lower_vol": 0,
      "normal_vol": 1533,
      "higher_vol": 0
    },
    "true_class_counts": {
      "lower_vol": 534,
      "normal_vol": 612,
      "higher_vol": 387
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    "expected_calibration_error": 0.1760233100613036,
    "brier_score": 0.712886643106662
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  "event_backtest": {
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    "transaction_cost_bps": 10.0,
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    "hit_ratio_1d_active": 0.5789473684210527,
    "avg_signal_return_1d_all": 0.0023507131510749455,
    "avg_signal_return_1d_all_net": 0.0016938312202204116,
    "avg_signal_return_1d_active": 0.0035785931088360393,
    "avg_signal_return_1d_active_net": 0.002578593108836038,
    "avg_abnormal_signal_return_1d_all": 0.0007162017627715418,
    "avg_abnormal_signal_return_1d_all_net": 5.93198319170076e-05,
    "avg_abnormal_signal_return_1d_active": 0.0010903051661656142,
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      "avg_signal_return_all": -4.1903094825102016e-05,
      "avg_signal_return_all_net": -9.093229164136574e-05,
      "avg_abnormal_signal_return_all": 6.6492548285168596e-06,
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    "avg_signal_return_5d_all": -0.004762698527096634,
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    "confidence_backtests_1d": {
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}

The confidence_backtests_1d section ranks events by directional confidence, where directional confidence is max(P(bearish), P(bullish)). This is the preferred way to inspect whether the model is useful as a signal filter. V4 also reports cost-adjusted backtest fields using 10.0 bps per active directional event.

Important Limitations

This is a research model, not trading advice.

Known limitations:

• Public news sentiment labels can be noisy.
• Daily OHLCV alignment is an approximation; intraday timestamp alignment would be better.
• Market-direction labels are derived from future returns and are sensitive to threshold choice.
• Results should be evaluated out-of-sample by date and by ticker before any practical use.

Files

• pytorch_model.bin: custom gated-fusion model weights.
• training_config.json: training and dataset configuration.
• feature_schema.json: numeric feature scaler and schema.
• label_mapping.json: task label names.
• metrics.json: train/validation/test metrics.
• test_predictions.csv: event-level test predictions and returns.
• top_10pct_directional_confidence_1d in test_predictions.csv: marks the highest-confidence directional event subset.
• confusion_matrix_*.csv: confusion matrices per split/task.