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Stock Price Forecasting Approach

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You are asked to build a model that predicts stock prices from historical market data. The goal is to produce forecasts that could support downstream investment research, while avoiding common mistakes like leakage and unrealistic backtests.

Question

How would you approach building a predictive model for stock prices?

Representative Dataset

size·8 years of daily data for 520 equities, about 1.05M ticker-day rowstarget·Next-day log return, plus optional next-day closefeatures·OHLCV, lagged returns, rolling stats, momentum, sector and macro contextmissing_data·Sparse market gaps and release-driven macro missingness