This was a good insight...

After a month, I realized that the lstm portion was just dead weight (I conceptually thought about it, and realized that every article is a unique "object" in terms of time data whereas the stock market has months and months of data for the same stock "object"). So I decided that the reason it wasn't working was because it would never work.

I guess the more appropriate comparison would be the author account, but then you run into the problem that authors post infrequently in comparison to the millions of stock trades that happen daily.