An XCS approach to forecasting financial time series

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2009

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 2625-2632

  Preen, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

computational finance; learning classifier systems; xcs

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC TRADING; FINANCIAL MARKETS; TIME SERIES;

'CURRENT; COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE; CONDITION; ENVIRONMENT CLASSIFICATION; FINANCIAL TIME SERIES FORECASTING; FORECASTING FINANCIAL TIME SERIES; LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE; TECHNICAL INDICATOR; XCS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84929963923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1570256.1570372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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