Citation Source and Traceability for Investment Platform

What Data Looks Like for This Category

Investment platform research data sources include public industry research reports, listed company periodic financial reports, vertical industry databases, real-time market data APIs, and more. Update cycles vary significantly: real-time market data updates every second, industry research reports are updated daily or weekly, and quarterly financial reports are released in concentrated batches each quarter. Document structures typically combine long text paragraphs and structured tables, including metadata such as title, publishing institution, publish time, and core viewpoints. They also include business fields like stock ticker, industry classification, investment rating, and target price, with units including yuan, percentage, and hundred million shares.

How These Characteristics Impact Citation Source and Traceability Workflows

The multi-source nature and wide variation in update cycles require traceability workflows to accurately mark a document’s publish time and source institution. This prevents confusion between data from different cycles of market data, research reports, and financial reports. For documents combining long text and structured tables, traceability must target specific argumentative paragraphs instead of entire documents, and extract corresponding business fields. Specialized business fields require traceability to display key information such as investment ratings and target prices, to help users verify data authority and timeliness.

Configuration Settings

Configuration Item	Recommended Value	Rationale
`recall count`	`top 3-5 entries`	Individual research documents have large content volume. Excessive recall will cause token overflow, and investment decisions rely on highly relevant core documents
`similarity threshold`	`0.75-0.85`	Investment data has strong professionalism. A high matching accuracy is required to avoid mixing irrelevant research reports or financial reports, while covering niche viewpoints in segmented industries
`segment length`	`800-1200 characters`	Research documents often contain long logical derivation paragraphs. Segments that are too long will lose context, while segments that are too short will damage argumentative integrity
`citation display fields`	`document title, publishing institution, publish time, investment rating, target price`	Investment research users need to quickly verify the authority and timeliness of the source, as well as corresponding fields of core business data
`PARSE_FILE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS`	`120 seconds`	Single research report or financial report files have large volume. Longer parsing time is required to avoid timeout failures
`maxContext`	`8000-12000`	Adapt to the long context requirements of research documents, and avoid truncation of recalled content

The parameter values provided on this page are conventional recommendations used as starting points for configuration. Actual values are affected by material form, data volume, and business rules. Specific issues require specific analysis, and it is recommended to test on your own samples before finalizing settings.

Three Common Errors

Scenario: Setting citation limit to 2000 triggers a context length exceeded status code error during answer generation. Cause: Individual research documents have large content volume, and the total token count of recalled documents exceeds the model's supported limit due to failure to align with the segment length configuration.
Scenario: Traceability results only display the document title, and do not include key information such as publishing institution or target price. Cause: citation display fields are not configured, and only basic document metadata is extracted by default, which fails to meet the business verification needs of investment research scenarios.
Scenario: Generated traceability prompts use default Chinese, which does not match the usage habits of overseas investment research teams. Cause: The system prompt configuration for knowledge base search was not modified, and wording adapted for English scenarios was not adjusted.

How to Confirm Configuration Is Active

Initiate an investment research-related query, check the traceability module at the end of the generated answer, and confirm that it includes the content of the configured citation display fields.
Adjust recall count to 1, initiate a query, and confirm that the traceability results only include 1 highly relevant document to verify that the configuration takes effect.
Upload a single research report file, wait for parsing to complete, check the segmented content after parsing, and confirm that the segment length matches the configured value range.
Trigger parsing of a large-volume financial report file, confirm that no parsing timeout prompt is displayed on the interface, and verify that the PARSE_FILE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS configuration takes effect.

Question material comes from public community discussions. Configuration values are common starting points and should be measured against your own samples. Verified on 2026-09-14.