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Efficient financial time series prediction with evolutionary virtual data position exploration

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Prediction of stock index remains a challenging task of the financial time series prediction process. Random fluctuations in the stock index make it difficult to predict. Usually the time series prediction is based on the observations of past trend over a period of time. In general, the curve the time series data follows has a linear part and a non-linear part. Prediction of the linear part with past history is not a difficult task, but the prediction of non linear segments is difficult. Though different non-linear prediction models are in use, but their prediction accuracy does not improve beyond a certain level. It is observed that close enough data positions are more informative where as far away data positions mislead prediction of such non linear segments. Apart from the existing data positions, exploration of few more close enough data positions enhance the prediction accuracy of the non-linear segments significantly. In this study, an evolutionary virtual data position (EVDP) exploration method for financial time series is proposed. It uses multilayer perceptron and genetic algorithm to build this model. Performance of the proposed model is compared with three deterministic methods such as linear, Lagrange and Taylor interpolation as well as two stochastic methods such as Uniform and Gaussian method. Ten different stock indices from across the globe are used for this experiment and it is observed that in majority of the cases performance of the proposed EVDP exploration method is better. Some stylized facts exhibited by the financial time series are also documented.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kommuri Pratap Reddy Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, 500088, India

    Sarat Chandra Nayak

  2. Department of Information Technology, Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, 751024, India

    Bijan Bihari Misra

  3. Department of Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, 768018, India

    Himansu Sekhar Behera

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Nayak, S.C., Misra, B.B. & Behera, H.S. Efficient financial time series prediction with evolutionary virtual data position exploration. Neural Comput & Applic 31 (Suppl 2), 1053–1074 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-017-3061-1

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