A combined PCA-MLP model for predicting stock index

  • Authors:
  • K. V. Sujatha;S. Meenakshi Sundaram

  • Affiliations:
  • Sathyabama University, Jeppiaar Nagar, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India;Sathyabama University, Jeppiaar Nagar, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st Amrita ACM-W Celebration on Women in Computing in India
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Predicting stock prices is a challenging and daunting task due to the complexity of the stock market. In this study, a combined model is proposed to explore market tendency. Prediction of daily closing price using the variables daily opening price, high, low and volume of transaction is done. In this approach, the predictor variables are multi collinear in nature which is overcome by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) which resulted in a new set of independent variables that are taken for predicting the stock prices using Multilayer Layer Perceptron (MLP) model. To evaluate the prediction ability of the model, we compare the performance of models using a common error measure. The empirical results reveal that the proposed approach is a promising alternate to stock market prediction.