Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/78568 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Industrial Engineering International [ISSN:] 2251-712X [Volume:] 9 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2013 [Pages:] 1-9
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
The main objective of this research is to forecast the daily direction of Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P 500) index using an artificial neural network (ANN). In order to select the most influential features (factors) of the proposed ANN that affect the daily direction of S&P 500 (the response), design of experiments are conducted to determine the statistically significant factors among 27 potential financial and economical variables along with a feature defined as the number of nodes of the ANN. The results of employing the proposed methodology show that the ANN that uses the most influential features is able to forecast the daily direction of S&P 500 significantly better than the traditional logit model. Furthermore, experimental results of employing the proposed ANN on the trades in a test period indicate that ANN could significantly improve the trading profit as compared with the buy-and-hold strategy.
Subjects: 
S&P 500 index
financial time series
artificial neural networks
design of experiments
analysis of variance
logit model
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Document Type: 
Article

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