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On the Profitability of Scalping Strategies Based on Neural Networks

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2006)

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We analyze the potential of unsupervised neural networks when they are employed to support intraday trading activity on financial markets. Several time frequencies have been considered: from five minutes to daily trades. At the current stage our major findings may be summarized as follows: a) unsupervised neural networks are helpful to localize profitable intraday patterns, and they make possible to achieve higher performances than common trading rules; b) trading strategies based on neural networks make exploitable with profits almost continuous trades (i.e. scalping), until transaction costs maintain below proper thresholds.

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  1. DIEM sez. di Matematica Finanziaria, University of Genova, via Vivaldi 5, 16126, Genova, Italy

    Marina Resta

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  1. School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, UK

    Bogdan Gabrys

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Resta, M. (2006). On the Profitability of Scalping Strategies Based on Neural Networks. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893011_81

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