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Up [U] and Down [D] movements per decade, 1950 through 2011.
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N-tuple S&P Patterns Across Decades, 1950s to 2011
A.G. Malliaris and Mary MalliarisEuro Working FinancialGroup
May 3-5, 2012, Rome, Italy
Purpose
• To investigate the Up and Down movements of the S&P 500 from 1950 through 2011
• Daily closing prices from 1/3/1950 to 7/19/2011, a total of 15,488 observations, were transformed into Up or Down by comparing today’s value to yesterday’s
Up [U] and Down [D] movements per decade, 1950 through 2011.
Two-Day Patterns Across Decades
Three-Day Patterns
Four-Day patterns
Five-Day Patterns
Number of Ups in Two Days
Number of Ups in Three Days
Number of Ups in Four Days
Number of Ups in Five Days
Forecasting
• Training set: data from January 1950 through December 2009 [15,087 rows]. With this data, we calculated the number of times each pattern occurred
• Validation set: January 2010 through mid-September 2011 [387 rows]
• Training set patterns were used to form predictions for the Validation set
The Forecast Decision
Training set
4-day
pattern Count
Up
through
Today
Forecast
DDUD 760 DDU U
DDUU 1050 DDU U
Suppose that DDU has occurred. Past history tells us that, of the four day possibilities, DDUU is more likely to occur than DDUD. So, for tomorrow, we will forecast Up when the three days before tomorrow have the pattern DDU.
Random Forecast
• We compare the performance of this conditional forecast of n-tuples with the random walk forecast.
• A random number was generated • If the value was less than .5 then Down was
predicted, otherwise the forecast was Up.
Number and Percent of Correct Forecasts on Validation Set
7 Day 6 Day 5 Day 4 Day 3 Day 2 Day 1 Day Rand
212 218 212 205 205 195 219 178
54.8% 56.3% 54.8% 53.0% 53.0% 50.4% 56.6% 46.0%
Decision Tree Model
• A C5.0 Decision Tree was built using IBM’s SPSS Modeler 14 package.
• We gave the decision tree the following inputs to use in building the tree:
the up-down patterns from one to seven days the number of up days in 1 to five days and the closing value today
Decision Tree Results
Result Count PercentCorrect 10,165 67.38%Wrong 4,922 32.62%Total 15,087
Result Count PercentCorrect 222 57.36%Wrong 165 42.64%Total 387
Training Set
Validation Set
Up and Down Forecasts on the Validation Set
Forecasted Down
Forecasted Up
Actual Down tomorrow
72 96
51.064% 39.024%Actual Up tomorrow
69 150
48.936% 60.976%
Variable Importance• This Modeler technique also ranks the input
variables in terms of importance, with more important variables occurring higher up on the tree.
• The variables ranked highest in importance to the forecast were
the direction today the closing value todaythe 7-day pattern [for example UDUUDDU]number of Up movements in the last three days.
Conclusions• The number of up movements is greater than
down movements across the decades. • Among the seven n-tuple lengths that we
studied, the highest ratio of successful forecasts was the one conditioned on only today’s direction to predict tomorrow.
• Markets do seem to have an upward trend• Successful trading can be achieved on the very
short-term basis of one day.