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1. TTP’s performance exceeds NT’s performance 3. Introducing scale change to pattern matching
in most countries. This clearly indicates that the can discover similar patterns with different time
trend prediction is able to find the correct trend scales.
in some cases. The trading strategy considering
the price trend does improve the trading perfor- 4. Combine our method with other techniques,
mance. such as GP, for better and more sophisticated
trading strategies.
2. As shown in Table 1 for the time period 1999–
2000, TTP has the best performance for US
and Singapore in comparison with GPs, i.e., GP Acknowledgements
1 and 2, and the twenty one practical trading
strategies. For UK, NT, which is slightly bet- The authors acknowledge Damien McAullay and
ter than TTP, performs the best. While all the Arun Vishwanath for their assistance in the prepara-
twenty one practical trading strategies get neg- tion of the paper.
ative or a slight positive return, TTP is able to
produce significant positive returns for the time
period 1999–2000. For Canada, GPs perform References
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Rule USA UK Canada Taiwan Singapore
B & H 0.0636 0.0478 0.3495 -0.2366 0.3625
GP 1 0.0655 0.0459 0.3660 0.1620 0.1461
GP 2 0.0685 0.0444 0.3414 0.5265 0.1620
TTP 0.1778 0.1524 0.0541 -0.22 0.4654
NT 0.0786 0.1560 0.0207 -0.1480 0.0524
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2 0.0292 -0.5265 -0.9935 -0.8737 -0.8182
3 -0.1640 -0.6941 -0.2494 -0.3338 -0.7028
4 -0.9865 -0.8252 -0.1182 -0.7371 -0.5123
5 -0.0896 -0.3062 -0.9872 -0.2571 -0.6288
6 -0.7176 -0.6335 -0.0440 0.0048 -0.7599
7 -1.1736 -1.7050 -2.1544 -1.1646 -1.9132
8 -1.2402 -1.3594 -2.1444 -0.7130 -0.8391
9 -1.3883 -1.0738 -1.6657 -1.0748 -0.7450
10 -1.6532 -1.4603 -1.5322 -1.0678 -0.4226
11 -1.0941 -0.5934 -1.4946 -0.3628 -0.9329
12 -1.4735 -1.2046 -2.6474 -1.5254 -1.6464
13 -0.9116 -0.7762 -0.1522 -0.6863 -0.3210
14 -0.2477 -0.2666 -0.9692 -0.2258 -0.5817
15 -0.6658 -0.5571 0.0019 0.0218 -0.7405
16 -0.7576 -0.9016 -0.1671 -0.4350 -0.0302
17 -0.1607 0.0126 -1.0631 0.3375 -0.5044
18 -0.4397 -0.6185 -0.0055 0.1213 -0.4336
19 -0.4240 -0.7951 -0.0942 -0.1480 -0.1412
20 0.1419 -0.0474 -1.0680 -0.5793 -0.5628
21 -0.4195 -0.6143 0.0827 0.2087 -0.5644
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