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A neural network approach to predicting stock exchange movements using external factors

✍ Scribed by Niall O’Connor; Michael G. Madden

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
171 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0950-7051

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✦ Synopsis

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of using external indicators, such as commodity prices and currency exchange rates, in predicting movements in the Dow Jones Industrial Average index. The performance of each technique is evaluated using different domain-specific metrics. A comprehensive evaluation procedure is described, involving the use of trading simulations to assess the practical value of predictive models, and comparison with simple benchmarks that respond to underlying market growth. In the experiments presented here, basing trading decisions on a neural network trained on a range of external indicators resulted in a return on investment of 23.5% per annum, during a period when the DJIA index grew by 13.03% per annum. A substantial dataset has been compiled and is available to other researchers interested in analysing financial time series.

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