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1、PREDICTIONOFFINANCIALTIMESERIESWITHHIDDENMARKOVMODELSbyYingjianZhangB.Eng.ShandongUniversity,China,2001athesissubmittedinpartialfulfillmentoftherequirementsforthedegreeofMasterofAppliedScienceintheSchoolofComputingSciencecYingjianZhang2004SIMONFRASERUNIVERSITYMay2004Allrightsreserved.Thi
2、sworkmaynotbereproducedinwholeorinpart,byphotocopyorothermeans,withoutthepermissionoftheauthor.APPROVALName:YingjianZhangDegree:MasterofAppliedScienceTitleofthesis:PredictionofFinancialTimeSerieswithHiddenMarkovModelsExaminingCommittee:Dr.GhassanHamarnehChairDr.AnoopSarkarAssistantProfes
3、sor,ComputingScienceSeniorSupervisorDr.AndreyPavlovAssistantProfessor,BusinessAdministrationCo-SeniorSupervisorDr.OliverSchulteAssistantProfessor,ComputingScienceSupervisorDr.MartinEsterAssociateProfessor,ComputingScienceSFUExaminerDateApproved:iiAbstractInthisthesis,wedevelopanextension
4、oftheHiddenMarkovModel(HMM)thataddressestwoofthemostimportantchallengesofnancialtimeseriesmodeling:non-stationaryandnon-linearity.Specically,weextendtheHMMtoincludeanovelexponentiallyweightedExpectation-Maximization(EM)algorithmtohandlethesetwochallenges.Weshowthatthisextensionallowsth
5、eHMMalgorithmtomodelnotonlysequencedatabutalsodynamicnancialtimeseries.WeshowtheupdaterulesfortheHMMparameterscanbewritteninaformofexponentialmovingaveragesofthemodelvariablessothatwecantaketheadvantageofexistingtechnicalanalysistechniques.WefurtherproposeadoubleweightedEMalgorithmthati
6、sabletoadjusttrainingsensitivityautomatically.ConvergenceresultsfortheproposedalgorithmsareprovedusingtechniquesfromtheEMTheorem.ExperimentalresultsshowthatourmodelsconsistentlybeattheS&P500Indexoverve400-daytestingperiodsfrom1994to2002,includingbothbullandbearmarkets.Ourmodelsalsoconsi
7、stentlyoutperformthetop5S&P500mutualfundsintermsoftheSharpeRatio.iiiTomymomivAcknowledgmentsIwouldliketoexpressmydeepgratitudetomyseniorsupervisor,Dr.AnoopSarkarforhisgreatpatience,detailedinstructionsandinsightfulcommentsateverystageofthisthesis.WhatIhavelearnedfromhimgo
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