Predicting direction shifts on Canadian-US exchange rates with artificial neural networks

The paper presents a variety of neural network models applied to Canadian–US exchange rate data. Networks such as backpropagation, modular, radial basis functions, linear vector quantization, fuzzy ARTMAP, and genetic reinforcement learning are examined. The purpose is to compare the performance of these networks for predicting direction (sign change) shifts in daily returns. For this classification problem, the neural nets proved superior to the naive model, and most of the neural nets were slightly superior to the logistic model. Using multiple previous days' returns as inputs to train and test the backpropagation and logistic models resulted in no increased classification accuracy. The models were not able to detect a systematic affect of previous days' returns up to fifteen days prior to the prediction day that would increase model performance. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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