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Improving moving average trading rules with boosting and statistical learning methods

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  • Julián Andrada-Félix

    (Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics and Management, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)

  • Fernando Fernández-Rodr�guez

    (Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics and Management, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)

Abstract

We present a system for combining the different types of predictions given by a wide category of mechanical trading rules through statistical learning methods (boosting, and several model averaging methods like Bayesian or simple averaging methods). Statistical learning methods supply better out-of-sample results than most of the single moving average rules in the NYSE Composite Index from January 1993 to December 2002. Moreover, using a filter to reduce trading frequency, the filtered boosting model produces a technical strategy which, although it is not able to overcome the returns of the buy-and-hold (B&H) strategy during rising periods, it does overcome the B&H during falling periods and is able to absorb a considerable part of falls in the market. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Article provided by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. in its journal Journal of Forecasting.

Volume (Year): 27 (2008)
Issue (Month): 5 ()
Pages: 433-449

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Handle: RePEc:jof:jforec:v:27:y:2008:i:5:p:433-449

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  1. Teresa Buchen & Klaus Wohlrabe, 2013. "Assessing the Macroeconomic Forecasting Performance of Boosting - Evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany," CESifo Working Paper Series 4148, CESifo Group Munich.

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