Machine Learning and Short Positions in Stock Trading Strategies
Faculty of Business and Law
School of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Investors may profit from either upward or downward movements in asset prices depending on whether they are long or short.To achieve immediate gains on their position they need to be able to predict the direction of short-term future price movements.The prediction of the direction of a price change is a classification problem. Customary statistical methods, such as linear logistic regression and discriminant analysis, are applied frequently to thisproblem. The development of more flexible methods, such as support vecto rmachine classification, offers practitioners potentially better and more powerful solutions. This chapter applies support vector machines (SVM )to predict the direction of price changes for a small set of DowJones Industrial Average stocks and tests them against the predictions obtained
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