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Strategies & Market Trends : Neural Nets - A tool for the 90's -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Optim who wrote (22)	12/29/1997 8:37:00 PM
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Since input selection,management, and massage are so critical to the ultimate neural net output ---would you speak to your experiences and offer advice as to how to best aproach this task? Over optimization is the first deadly sin of TA... not so with NN? Are the nets finding non linear relationships that we can not see or just using computational power to discover subtilities about the edges that produce their effectiveness? CT

To: Optim who wrote (22)	12/30/1997 2:21:00 AM
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In reading your posts it appears you have experience with several different NN software packages. Besides price how do they differ? Since you are presently using neuroshell, is it the best? I've noticed that neurostock offered varying numbers of "neurons" along differing price points. As to ease of use my background is non engineering with limited computer experience other than running common off the shelf software packages. Does one need extensive computer language writing abilities? Can you speak to the amount of time it takes to get a NN up and running with the type of results upon which you would risk your hard earned dollars? I presently use a system of about 25 price based indicators to make buy/sell decisions. Is this too many to feed into a NN? Thanks in advance-- CT

To: Optim who wrote (22)	12/31/1997 8:20:00 PM
From: J. Salbans	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 871

Thanks for the informative post. One quality I am interested in is the potential for having a system which could give not only buy and sell signals, but could also estimate error boundries such that one could have information on the estimated "range" of profit at a given point. This seems to me to be the type of problem which is well suited to a fuzzy logic methodology (possibly GA). Is anyone aware of products which combine fuzzy logic/GA/neural nets to address problems such as this? thanks--out for '97. happy new year to all.