scholarly journals Are technical indicators helpful to investors in china’s stock market? A study based on some distribution forecast models and their combinations

Author(s):  
Yanyun Yao ◽  
Shangzhen Cai ◽  
Huimin Wang
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Wang ◽  
Junseok Kim

With the rapid development of the financial market, many professional traders use technical indicators to analyze the stock market. As one of these technical indicators, moving average convergence divergence (MACD) is widely applied by many investors. MACD is a momentum indicator derived from the exponential moving average (EMA) or exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA), which reacts more significantly to recent price changes than the simple moving average (SMA). Traders find the analysis of 12- and 26-day EMA very useful and insightful for determining buy-and-sell points. The purpose of this study is to develop an effective method for predicting the stock price trend. Typically, the traditional EMA is calculated using a fixed weight; however, in this study, we use a changing weight based on the historical volatility. We denote the historical volatility index as HVIX and the new MACD as MACD-HVIX. We test the stability of MACD-HVIX and compare it with that of MACD. Furthermore, the validity of the MACD-HVIX index is tested by using the trend recognition accuracy. We compare the accuracy between a MACD histogram and a MACD-HVIX histogram and find that the accuracy of using MACD-HVIX histogram is 55.55% higher than that of the MACD histogram when we use the buy-and-sell strategy. When we use the buy-and-hold strategy for 5 and 10 days, the prediction accuracy of MACD-HVIX is 33.33% and 12% higher than that of the traditional MACD strategy, respectively. We found that the new indicator is more stable. Therefore, the improved stock price forecasting model can predict the trend of stock prices and help investors augment their return in the stock market.


2014 ◽  
Vol 651-653 ◽  
pp. 1651-1654
Author(s):  
Rui Zhong Wang

This paper selected as part of a number of technical indicators, the main use of data mining software for different technical indicators signal given trading technical analysis of association rules. By studying the resulting characteristics of the relationship between the rules and give the stock market investors a certain decision support, to enable investors to operate with a higher success rate.


2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela J. Black ◽  
David G. McMillan ◽  
Fiona J. McMillan

Purpose – This paper aims to empirically test for multiple cointegrating vectors in a holistic manner. Theoretical developments imply bivariate cointegration among stock prices, dividends, output and consumption where independent models identify key theoretical cointegration vectors. Design/methodology/approach – This paper considers both Johansen and Horvath–Watson testing approaches for cointegration. This paper also examines the forecasting power of these cointegrating relationships against alternate forecast variables. Findings – The results suggest evidence of a long-run cointegrating relationship between stock prices, dividends, output and consumption, although not necessarily linked by a single common stochastic trend; each series responds to disequilibrium with greater evidence of a reaction from dividends and consumption – of note, output responds to changes in stock market equilibrium; and there is forecast power from the joint stock market–macro cointegrating vector for stocks returns and consumption growth over the historical average. Of particular note, other forecast models that include consumption perform well and suggest a key role for this variable in stock return and consumption growth forecasts. Originality/value – This is the first paper to combine the cointegrating relationships between stocks, dividends, output and consumption. Thus, the empirical validity of stated theoretical hypotheses can be analysed. The forecast results also demonstrate the usefulness of this. They also show that forecast models that include consumption perform well and suggest a key role for this variable in stock return and consumption growth forecasts.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0

The successful prediction of the stocks’ future price would produce substantial profit to the investor. In this paper, we propose a framework with the help of various technical indicators of the stock market to predict the future prices of the stock using Recurrent Neural Network based Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) algorithm. The historical transactional data set is amalgamated with the technical indicators to create a more effective input dataset. The historical data is taken from 2010-2019 ten years in total. The dataset is divided into 80% training set and 20% test set. The experiment is carried out in two phases first without the technical indicators and after adding technical indicators. In the experimental setup, it has been observed the LSTM with technical indicators have significantly reduced the error value by 2.42% and improved the overall performance of the system as compared to other machine learning frameworks that are not accounting the effect of technical indicators.


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