Title
A hybrid approach by integrating wavelet-based feature extraction with MARS and SVR for stock index forecasting
Abstract
Forecasting stock prices is a major activity of financial firms and private investors when they make investment decisions. Feature extraction is usually the first step of a stock price forecasting model development. Wavelet transform, used mainly for the extraction of information contained in signals, is a signal processing technique that can simultaneously analyze the time domain and the frequency domain. When wavelet transform is employed to construct a forecasting model, the wavelet basis functions and decomposition stages need to be determined first. However, because forecasting models constructed by different wavelet sub-series would exhibit different forecasting capabilities and yield varying forecast results, the selection of wavelet that can lead to an optimal forecast outcome is extremely critical in model construction. In this study, a new stock price forecasting model which integrates wavelet transform, multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS), and support vector regression (SVR) (called Wavelet-MARS-SVR) is proposed to not only address the problem of wavelet sub-series selection but also improve the forecast accuracy. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by comparing the forecasting results of Wavelet-MARS-SVR with the ones made by other five competing approaches (Wavelet-SVR, Wavelet-MARS, single ARIMA, single SVR and single ANFIS) on the stock price data of two newly emerging stock markets and two mature stock markets. The empirical study shows that the proposed approach can not only solve the problem of wavelet sub-series selection but also outperform other competing models. Moreover, according to the sub-series which are selected by the proposed approach, we can successfully identify the data of which sessions (or points in time) among past stock market prices exerted significant impact on the construction of the forecasting model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.dss.2012.11.012
Decision Support Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
stock index forecasting,mature stock market,wavelet-based feature extraction,forecasting stock price,forecasting result,different forecasting capability,wavelet sub-series selection,new stock price forecasting,hybrid approach,forecasting model,different wavelet sub-series,wavelet basis function,multivariate adaptive regression splines,support vector regression,wavelet transform,feature extraction
Data mining,Multivariate adaptive regression splines,Stock market index,Computer science,Autoregressive integrated moving average,Probabilistic forecasting,Adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system,Stock market,Wavelet,Wavelet transform
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
3
0167-9236
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
31
0.95
28
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ling-Jing Kao1834.58
Chih-Chou Chiu243924.74
Chi-Jie Lu356031.59
Chih-Hsiang Chang410310.91