The development of the Financial Crisis throughout 2008 and 2009 has made many investors and fund managers question whether growth-based investment approaches have had their day. Value-based approaches built on fundamental analysis have resurfaced again. Typically, these value-based models use...

Everybody knows there is potential to make big money in the stock market. But what most people don't know is how to go about it. This book will guide you step-by-step through the authors' tried and tested method for building rule-based stockmarket trading systems. It shows you how to design,...

There is a long established history of applying Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to financial data sets. In this paper, the authors demonstrate the use of this methodology to develop a financially viable, short-term trading system. When developing short-term systems, the authors typically site...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Designing Stock Market Trading Systems -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Motivation -- 1.3 Scope and data -- 1.4 The efficient market hypothesis -- 1.5 The illusion of knowledge -- 1.6 Investing versus trading -- 1.6.1...