Modern Algorithmic Trading ("Algo") allows institutional investors and traders to liquidate or establish big security positions in a fully automated or low-touch manner. Most existing academic or industrial Algos focus on how to "slice" a big parent order into smaller child orders over a given...

The motivation of this paper is to introduce a short term adaptive model (Partial Swarm Optimizer combined with linear and nonlinear models when applied to the task of forecasting and trading the daily closing returns of the FTSE100 exchange traded funds (ETFs). This is done by benchmarking its...