A new method for crude oil price forecasting based on support vector machines

  • Authors:
  • Wen Xie;Lean Yu;Shanying Xu;Shouyang Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part IV
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new method for crude oil price forecasting based on support vector machine (SVM). The procedure of developing a support vector machine model for time series forecasting involves data sampling, sample preprocessing, training & learning and out-of-sample forecasting. To evaluate the forecasting ability of SVM, we compare its performance with those of ARIMA and BPNN. The experiment results show that SVM outperforms the other two methods and is a fairly good candidate for the crude oil price prediction.