Predicting Stock Returns with Genetic Programming: Do the Short-Term Nonlinear Regularities Exist?

Shu-Heng Chen, Chia-Hsuan Yeh
Pre-proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR R0:95-101, 1995.

Abstract

This paper is devoted to applying the genetic programming paradigm to the test of the captial market efficiency hypothesis. How this paradigm is distinguished from the existing statistical approaches is briefly reviewed. Instead of using the large-sample analysis prevailing in the literature, this research rests on a small-sample analysis to inquire the existence of short-term non-linear regularities. By Rissanen’s MDLP (Minimum Description Length Principle), the sample period with the highest complexity is chosen. Since our simulation results, which are based on Koza’s genetic programming paradigm (KGP) and its Bayesian modification (BGP), show that it is not easy to outperform $A R(1)$ and is extremely difficult to beat random walk, the nonlinear regularities, while might exist, is very difficult to be found. Therefore, the capital market efficiency hypothesis can, at least, sustain from this perspective.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-vR0-chen95a, title = {Predicting Stock Returns with Genetic Programming: Do the Short-Term Nonlinear Regularities Exist?}, author = {Chen, Shu-Heng and Yeh, Chia-Hsuan}, booktitle = {Pre-proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics}, pages = {95--101}, year = {1995}, editor = {Fisher, Doug and Lenz, Hans-Joachim}, volume = {R0}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {04--07 Jan}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/r0/chen95a/chen95a.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/r0/chen95a.html}, abstract = {This paper is devoted to applying the genetic programming paradigm to the test of the captial market efficiency hypothesis. How this paradigm is distinguished from the existing statistical approaches is briefly reviewed. Instead of using the large-sample analysis prevailing in the literature, this research rests on a small-sample analysis to inquire the existence of short-term non-linear regularities. By Rissanen’s MDLP (Minimum Description Length Principle), the sample period with the highest complexity is chosen. Since our simulation results, which are based on Koza’s genetic programming paradigm (KGP) and its Bayesian modification (BGP), show that it is not easy to outperform $A R(1)$ and is extremely difficult to beat random walk, the nonlinear regularities, while might exist, is very difficult to be found. Therefore, the capital market efficiency hypothesis can, at least, sustain from this perspective.}, note = {Reissued by PMLR on 01 May 2022.} }
Endnote
%0 Conference Paper %T Predicting Stock Returns with Genetic Programming: Do the Short-Term Nonlinear Regularities Exist? %A Shu-Heng Chen %A Chia-Hsuan Yeh %B Pre-proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 1995 %E Doug Fisher %E Hans-Joachim Lenz %F pmlr-vR0-chen95a %I PMLR %P 95--101 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/r0/chen95a.html %V R0 %X This paper is devoted to applying the genetic programming paradigm to the test of the captial market efficiency hypothesis. How this paradigm is distinguished from the existing statistical approaches is briefly reviewed. Instead of using the large-sample analysis prevailing in the literature, this research rests on a small-sample analysis to inquire the existence of short-term non-linear regularities. By Rissanen’s MDLP (Minimum Description Length Principle), the sample period with the highest complexity is chosen. Since our simulation results, which are based on Koza’s genetic programming paradigm (KGP) and its Bayesian modification (BGP), show that it is not easy to outperform $A R(1)$ and is extremely difficult to beat random walk, the nonlinear regularities, while might exist, is very difficult to be found. Therefore, the capital market efficiency hypothesis can, at least, sustain from this perspective. %Z Reissued by PMLR on 01 May 2022.
APA
Chen, S. & Yeh, C.. (1995). Predicting Stock Returns with Genetic Programming: Do the Short-Term Nonlinear Regularities Exist?. Pre-proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research R0:95-101 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/r0/chen95a.html. Reissued by PMLR on 01 May 2022.

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