| Author: | Hu, Lun |
| Title: | Discovering associative price patterns in stock data |
| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Subject: | Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations. Stock price forecasting. Investment analysis. |
| Department: | Department of Computing |
| Pages: | x, 100 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Accompanying with the development of economy, the stock trade has already being an important investment tool for people to deposit or increase their wealth. However, when referring to the analysis of stocks, most people determine the actions (i.e., buy or sell) according to their subjective experience as well as the performance of companies. Though the accuracy resulting from those common methods may be encouraging for some time, they ignore the similarity and regularity of data, thus being lack of both objectivity and rationality. Hence, more and more researchers focus their attention to develop objective and computational methods achieving the goal of analyzing stocks with a good performance, and data mining is a hot general approach in this field. Since data mining intends to tackle this issue in the way of finding similarity hidden in data, the appearances of data used as input include numerical or categorical. However, in order to represent different shapes of stock price movement, we introduce the conception of price pattern, consisting of a sequence of categorical values, to represent those shapes. This dissertation proposes a statistical computational method to determine whether or not associative price patterns exist in financial time series such as in stock price series. The problem of finding patterns in financial time series has been tackled by systematical observations, statistical analysis or by the use of artificial intelligence techniques. However, the emphasis is more on finding pattern in data rather than finding associations between patterns. Given that patterns in time series may overlap or be scattered within a series, the discovering of pattern association has not receive much attention. The dissertation proposes a technique to find elementary patterns in financial time series. Based on it, a sequence of patterns, (yi)n, i=0 can then be constructed for the original time series. Using the idea of residual analysis, we show how we can conclude that an associative relationship exists between two patterns yn and yn-1. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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