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This study develops a novel framework that enhances stock price prediction by integrating time-partitioned investor sentiment, while improving model interpretability via Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) analysis. Employing the ERNIE (enhanced representation through knowledge integration) 3.0 model for sentiment extraction from China\u2019s Eastmoney Guba stock forum, we quantitatively distinguish intraday and post-market investor sentiment then integrate these temporal components with technical indicators through neural network architecture. Our results indicate that temporal sentiment partitioning effectively reduces uncertainty. Empirical evidence demonstrates that our long short-term memory (LSTM) model integrating intraday and post-market sentiment indicators achieves better prediction accuracy, and SHAP analysis reveals the importance of intraday and post-market investor sentiment to stock price prediction models. Implementing quantitative trading strategies based on these insights generates significantly more annualized returns for representative stocks with controlled risk, outperforming sentiment-agnostic and non-temporal sentiment models. This research provides methodological innovations for processing temporal unstructured data in finance, while the SHAP framework offers regulators and investors actionable insights into sentiment-driven market dynamics.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems13050390","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,19]],"date-time":"2025-05-19T06:31:29Z","timestamp":1747636289000},"page":"390","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Intraday and Post-Market Investor Sentiment for Stock Price Prediction: A Deep Learning Framework with Explainability and Quantitative Trading Strategy"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Guowei","family":"Sun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Jinzhai Road, Hefei 230026, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Jinzhai Road, Hefei 230026, China"},{"name":"New Finance Research Center, International Institute of Finance, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Guangxi Road, Hefei 230026, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"383","DOI":"10.2307\/2325486","article-title":"Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Theory and Empirical Work","volume":"25","author":"Fama","year":"1970","journal-title":"J. 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