...Using Neural Networks to Forecast Stock Market Prices Abstract This paper is a survey on the application of neural networks in forecasting stock market prices. With their ability to discover patterns in nonlinear and chaotic systems, neural networks offer the ability to predict market directions more accurately than current techniques. Common market analysis techniques such as technical analysis, fundamental analysis, and regression are discussed and compared with neural network performance. Also, the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is presented and contrasted with chaos theory and neural networks. This paper refutes the EMH based on previous neural network work. Finally, future directions for applying neural networks to the financial markets are discussed. 1 Introduction From the beginning of time it has been man’s common goal to make his life easier. The prevailing notion in society is that wealth brings comfort and luxury, so it is not surprising that there has been so much work done on ways to predict the markets. Various technical, fundamental, and statistical indicators have been proposed and used with varying results. However, no one technique or combination of techniques has been successful enough to consistently "beat the market". With the development of neural networks, researchers and investors are hoping that the market mysteries can be unraveled. This paper is a survey of current market forecasting techniques with an emphasis on why they are insufficient...
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...ANNEXURE - C “TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF STOCKS ” This project report in the Special Studies in Finance based on the in-depth study of the project theme is submitted in February, 2014 to the Sydenham Institute of Management Studies and Research and Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE) , B - Road, Churchgate, Mumbai - 400 020, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Master’s Degree, Masters in Management Studies (MMS), Submitted By NAME: VAISHALI CHANDRESH GORATELA ROLL NO. : M12020 CLASS: MMS1 BATCH: 2012-2014 Guided By MR. AMIT BOBHATE Date: Place: MUMBAI ANNEXURE – D CERTIFICATE This is to certify that this project report entitled “TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF STOCKS” is submitted in February, 2014 to Sydenham Institute of Management Studies and Research and Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE) , Mumbai 400020, by Ms. Vaishali Goratela bearing Roll No. M12020, batch (2012 - 2014) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Master’s Degree, Masters in Management Studies (MMS). This is a record of her own work carried out under my guidance. She has discussed with me adequately before compiling the above work and I am satisfied with the quality, originality and depth of the work for the above qualification. PLACE: MUMBAI. ________________ DATE: (Signature...
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...The operational efficiency emphasizes how well things function in an organization with respect to speed of execution and accuracy. In an stock exchange situation where efficiency is paramount, this is measured by factors such the numbers of orders lost and/or filled incorrectly. And importantly the time elapsed between receiving an order and its execution. People involved in this field are very aware of this and attempt to streamline their operation to mitigate errors and to achieve operational efficiency. But EMH has nothing to do with this type of efficiency. Informational Efficiency refers to how quickly and accurately current security prices reflect all available information. All sort of information – economic reports, earnings forecasts, political announcements, opinions – is constantly enters the market. What affect does this have on security prices? And what does it mean? For example, unemployment is rising; is it good or bad for government securities holder. Or a company’s new about its merging with another! There are several of these questions and they have impact on some security or other. The question is how quickly they impact security prices. We know that in the US market (so far without the government regulation) security prices adjust rapidly and accurately to information and often without time to digest it. Often the speed with which the prices adjust is simply remarkable. The efficient market hypothesis is based on certain assumptions which in turn our market...
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...FOR BOTH TRADING AND INVESTING AN ANALYTICAL STUDY ON EFFICACY OF ALGORITHM FOR BOTH TRADING AND INVESTING ABSTRACT INDEX AIM OF STUDY PURPOSE * The main agenda of this study is to test the basic oscillators like RSI and OBV is to identify the behavior of these early indicators in various types of market. The agenda of using moving average lag indicators like Bollinger band is to check how well these bands work in giving out trade signals. * The study aims to find out using Bloomberg terminal that whether combination of studies and Risk management help to enhance the performance of the indicators and do they really help to make a more profitable decision. * This study also intends to use some basic fundamental indicators to identify whether they can be used as tool to invest in securities and how well they are able to perform as compared to a benchmark index. The aim is to use a matrix of indicators, so that it can be also assessed whether combination of basic indicators are good enough to make portfolio creation judgment that can lead to market beating portfolio or not. * All the testing has been done using the Bloomberg terminal. LIMITATIONS * There are many lead, hybrid and lag indicators available in the market however not every single one can be tested. * The testing only targets the NSE that is typically Indian market, hence the results may be non-inferential for international markets. * The matrix used in fundamental factor...
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...defined as one in which the prices of securities fully reflect all available information. This requires that the reaction of the market prices to new information should be instantaneous and unbiased. If such conditions exist, it will not be possible (except by chance) to employ either past information or a mechanical trading strategy to generate returns in excess of the returns warranted by the level of risk involved. In short, consistent excess profits will not be made. Or in an efficient market it is not possible to consistently make an abnormal return. Statement 1 What would cause a market to be efficient? The main argument in support of efficiency is the existence of a competitive market in which numerous investors are competing in an effort to make abnormal returns. It is suggested that, in such a market, investors will seek information and take immediate action to buy or sell securities based on any new information. As a result, information will be impounded very quickly in market prices. Market efficiency may be improved by an increase in the quantity and quality of information that is made publicly available, and a reduction in restrictions on insider trading. Statement 1 * New information regarding securities comes to the market in random fashion. * Profit maximising investors cause security prices to adjust rapidly to reflect the effect of new information. Methods used to test for market efficiency Market efficiency may be classified according to the...
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...Yield: Technical Analysis forecasting (Historical data/statistics) Price action is king as common words for chartist and for those using quantitative techniques in predicting the market direction. By finding the trend, will help on what investment strategy to be used which may also dependent on time horizon. Current S&P 500 dividend yield of 1.96% is just sitting near the all time low of 1.11% (2002). For the past 13 years there is no significant trend strength in its direction. The market is still in range trading strategy with little biased on bearish side. Mark Masuoka does not want to be out of the market entirely. Trend trading strategy is always in the market regardless if it is downtrend (shorting) or uptrend (long). How about for range trading which no signal of breakout for the new trend? Part of trading strategy for this situation is identifying the small movements which common call as swing trading. For technician point of view based on the current chart, Mark Masuoka can use a combination of shorting the S&P 500 with a little swing trades to benefit on current movements. When it comes to prediction power of short horizon return and long horizon return, we need to have a proper strike balance between speed and accuracy. For short horizon which is our leading indicator can predict a trend early but prone to false signal. For long horizon which is our lagging indicator can predict a trend a little late but with an increase in accuracy. Swing trading strategy...
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...SYMBIOSIS SCHOOL OF BANKING MANAGEMENT Constituent of symbiosis International University Accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ Grade Established under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, vide notification No: F.9.12/2001-U-3of the Government of India. IMPORTANCE OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS IN DETERMINING MOVEMENT OF PRICE IN EQUITY STOCK MARKET Internship Report submitted to SIU in partial completion of the requirement of MBA Banking Management at Symbiosis School of Banking Management Pune-412115. NAME OF THE STUDENT: PROJECT MENTOR (SSBM) PROJECT MENTOR / PRN: REPORTING OFFICER (AT THE BANK) ABHISHEK AGRAWAL DR. BINDYA KOHLI AMOL ATHAWALE PRN: 12020941031 APRIL 08 2013 TO MAY 25 2013 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I sincerely and religiously devote this Research Paper to all the gem of persons who have openly or silently left an ineradicable mark on this research so that they may be brought into consideration and given their share of credit, which they genuinely and outstandingly deserve. This expedition of research...
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...AND PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) SUBMITTED TO DR. NIAMAT KHAN SUBMITTED BY SSH SHAYKH ROLL NO: 04 INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDY UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) Has been consented as one of the cornerstones of modern financial economics. Fama first defined the term "efficient market" in financial literature in 1965 as one in which security prices fully reflect all available information. The market is efficient if the reaction of market prices to new information should be immediate and impartial. Efficient market hypothesis is the initiative that information is quickly, and efficiently integrated into asset prices at any position in time, so that old information cannot be used to foretell future price movements. Therefore, three versions of EMH are being notable depends on the level of available information. TYPES OF Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) Weak form EMH The current asset prices already imitate past price and volume information. The information enclosed in the past succession of prices of a security is completely reflected in the current market price of that security. It is named weak form because the security prices are the most publicly and easily available pieces of information. It implies that no one should be able to smash the market using something that "everybody else knows". Yet, there are still numbers of financial researchers who are studying the past stock price cycle and trading volume data...
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...Impact of high-frequency trading on stock Exchanges Maastricht University | | | | School of Business & Economics | | | | Place & date: | Maastricht, 22 January 2013 | | | | Name, initials: | B.G.M. Lens | | For assessor only | | ID number: | I6048482 | | 1. Content | | Study: | International Business/Economics | | 2. Language structure | | Course code: | EBS1001 | | 3. Language accuracy | | Group number: | C | | 4. Language: Format & citing/referencing | | Tutor name: | Cigdem Akbulut | | Overall: | | Writing tutor name: | / | | Advisory grade | | Writing assignment: | High frequency trading paper | | Assessor’s initials | | Your UM email address: brianlens@gmail.com 1. Introduction On 6 May 2010 the stock market experienced a period of high instability generally known as the Flash Crash. This Flash Crash was the second largest point swing (1,010.14 points) and the biggest one-day point decline (998.5 points) in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Easley, Lopez de Prado, & O’Hara, 2010). For a few minutes, 1 trillion dollars in market value vanished. Therefore, it raised numerous alerts in the U.S. stock market and world markets. It was mainly attributed to the algorithms that nearly all high frequency traders (HFTs) use to make their stock trades. However, primarily blaming high frequency traders and their complex algorithms would ignore the other conditions that allowed the Flash Crash to occur...
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...Introduction Filed Under » Fundamental Analysis, Investment, Technical Analysis, Trading Systems Welcome to the Beginner's Guide to Bloomberg. This portion of the guide is aimed at new Bloomberg users, and will provide an overview of how to use a Bloomberg terminal. If you are a more experienced user, or if after reading this guide you want to go into more detail on Bloomberg's capabilities, please be on the lookout for the Advanced Guide to Bloomberg which will soon follow. (For more, see Day Trading Strategies For Beginners.) In this Basic Guide, we will examine how to sign up for, install and access Bloomberg. We will then go on to covering basic navigation on the Bloomberg system. Navigating Bloomberg is somewhat unique in that the system uses a special keyboard with some keys that are different from those found on a "normal" keyboard. Therefore, the navigation section of this guide will be important to newcomers. After gaining a working knowledge of these basics, in chapter four we will then move on to discuss some of the market and news monitor functions that are available on Bloomberg. Chapter five will focus on the basics of analyzing securities on Bloomberg. Advanced functionality in this area will be covered in the Advanced Guide; in this Basic Guide we will focus more closely on the types of analysis that Bloomberg allows users to perform. Finally, chapter six will provide some tips and tricks for navigating Bloomberg and getting the maximum possible benefit from this remarkable...
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...on “Technical Analysis of Selected Stocks with reference to Kotak Securities” Ltd, Mysore. By, SHARATH KUMAR M 4GW13MBA45 Submitted to VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Under the Guidance of INTERNAL GUIDE EXTERNAL GUIDE Ms. USHA B Assistant Professor GSSS Centre for PG Studies & Research Mysore Mr. Anil Kumar Branch manager Kotak Securites ltd, Mysore GSSS CENTRE FOR PG STUDIES & RESEARCH Department of Management KRS ROAD, MYSORE - 570016 2013-2015 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A Project study of this nature calls for professional help and guidance from all quarters....
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...market conditions may actually be advantageous for some investors. For example, volatility is needed to some degree because if prices do not move sufficiently, it will be difficult to make money from trading them. Thus, the recent fluctuations in the share market have highlighted the fact that there are risks involved with investing money and that finding the right investment strategy is a crucial step in investing. Investors today have more investment options than were available to the average investor just a few decades ago. While having multiple options is usually a good thing, too many options can cause confusion and system overload and lead many people to avoid making decisions about their investment strategies. Most strategies used to invest in the share market fall into three general categories including technical analysis, fundamental analysis, or a buy-and-hold strategy. The fundamental analysis approach is primarily concerned with value; it examines factors that determine a company's expected future earnings and dividends as well as the continued dependability of those earnings and dividends (McDonald 2007, 100). The investor who uses technical analysis attempts to predict the future price of a stock or the future direction of the market based on past price and trading volume changes (Subramaniam 2010, 46). The buy-and-hold approach is the benchmark against which any other approaches to market investing should be measured. This strategy provides the...
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...DFA Company is a type of broker investment company that invest in Small stock. This focus is on a small niche that fits within the realms of the company. This provide limitations to the company about the type of stock they will invest in. However it provides an academic understanding as to which stock the company should select based on the formulations. The company’s growth and profit continued to grow with their academic approaches. The company’s management never set the goal to maximize assets. DFA based their approach on academic research and skilled traders. This create a essential formula for the company to create a list of possible investments that fit within the company’s ideal portfolio. DFA used a strategy to decrease the costs between the client and DFA as well as create value. DFA additionally used a value proposition of DFA by using the academic research to create specialized portfolios focusing on the small cap companies (small cap = 300 mil- 2 bill range). This investment approach focused on the Fama and French model. Their research demonstrated the small cap companies tended to outperform the large cap companies. DFA also added trading capabilities to increase variety among the competitive market while decreasing transaction costs. Passive Approach - Pros the company created low operating expenses, no initial decision making from managers or the investors. Relied on the fundamentals of the Fama and French Model. Cons the company managers do not...
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...Introduction to Stock Exchanges ------------------------------------------------- Meaning, purpose, working of stock exchanges in India; various terms used in stock exchanges, trading in stock exchanges, clearing and settlement, rolling settlement, online trading, internet trading, market indices, types of public issue Which is benchmark stock market index of India? How many securities are there in Nifty Index? How many securities are there in Sensex? Which index will have high volatility Nifty or BSE Midcap? What do you mean by primary market? ------------------------------------------------- What do you mean by secondary market? What do you mean by stock split? What do you mean by Bonus Issue? What do you mean by Buy Back? What do you mean by Right issue of shares? What are ADR’s? ------------------------------------------------- What is the difference in between IPO and FPO? Risk-Return analysis Risk meaning and Measurement – Types of Risk – Systematic, Unsystematic risk, Beta Coefficient, Alpha, CAPM theory etc. What is return? Expected rate of Return, computation formulae. Case studies on risk-return using standard deviation, variance, probability and other statistical tools. ------------------------------------------------- What is beta? ------------------------------------------------- What is cost of equity? ------------------------------------------------- What is WACC? ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...BROKING.” I have done my summer training project at Jamnagar branch from 1st of May to 15th of June. The Angel Group has emerged as one of the top 5 retail stock broking houses in India, having memberships on BSE, NSE and the two leading commodity exchanges in the country i.e. NCDEX and MCX. Angel Broking Ltd is also registered as a depository participant with CDSL. Angel has exceeded customer’s expectations by providing world-class service. I was placed under the marketing and sales department and I have learned a lot in carrying out marketing task for Angel Broking. I have done marketing in retail client segment. I have also carried out a project during summer training. The title of my project is “Present and the Future Scenario of e-Broking in Jamnagar city area” The questionnaire was used as data collection instrument and both open ended and close ended type of questions were used as per the requirement. From the survey it was found that currently the concept of e-Broking is not so prevalent in the market, but its future can be made bright by properly conveying its benefits. More details about the project are available in later part of this report. INTRODUCTION TO ANGEL In a shot span of 18 years since inception, the Angel Group has emerged as one of the top five retail stock broking houses in India, having membership of BSE, NSE and the two leading Commodity Exchanges in the country i.e. NCDEX & MCX. Angel Broking is also registered as...
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