The profitability of daily stock market indices trades based on neural network predictions: Case study for the S and P 500, the DAX, the TOPIX and the FTSE in the period 1965-1999

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 285-297

  Jasic, Teo ^a   Wood, Douglas ^b  

^a ACCENTURE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MARKET; PROFITABILITY; STOCK MARKET;

ASIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; GERMANY; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1542426286     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000201228     Document Type: Article

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