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

To: Jay Hartzok who wrote (104)	6/15/1998 6:56:00 AM
From: Len Giammetta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 871

Jay... ditto

To: Jay Hartzok who wrote (104)	6/15/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: Optim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 871

Jay, >The way it sets up my data files is confusing. In fact everything about it >is confusing. "Inputs", "Outputs", I'm lost on this program. Give it a chance. The data importing screen allows you to choose which columns in your data file are considered inputs, outputs or are to be ignored. The way I used this was to export all the values of my indicators (i.e. stochastics, moving average, etc.) into one big data file. Then I ignored the open, high, low and volume. I set the inputs to my exported TA indicators and the close. Then I set my last exported column to output, which was the 1 day percent change in the future (1 day change shifted back by a day). I know that sounds confusing at first but once you do it a few times, it really becomes easy. The rest of it is a little more complicated, but it allows for much more flexibility in you predictions than Neurostock. You can choose to forward project an indicator, % change in price, fundamental values, etc. There is however a learning curve. If you would like to learn how to design a trading system using all these new technologies (GA,NN,Statistics) I highly recommend the book Cybernetic Trading Strategies from Ruggiero and Associtates. It gives you a brief explanation of the technologies, but more importantly it explains how to make money with them. Designing a good net is difficult. But if you stick with it and put the time into learning how they work, the rewards are ample. Optim