Neural Market Trends

Using Rapidminer to model trends in the financial markets

Entries for the ‘Futures’ Category

Gold Breakout

It sure looks like Gold broke out in September as featured in this monthly chart. I’m going to go long a few shares of GLD in my wife’s 401k account today. Why?  Buying breakouts works reasonably well in trend following and they work fantastically if the stock is at all time highs.
As long as [...]

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EURUSD Rocket

I totally missed out on the Friday EURUSD rally. It shot past 1.4150 to the mid 1.42’s. Well I’m not overly worried because there are always opportunities in the Forex market. The trick is to find a low risk spot to get in and then hold on, preferably on a nice pull [...]

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A Breakout In Gold?

I’m not holding my breath but if it does, I might have to make some updates to my article.

Just to be on the safe side, I’m crunching about 20 years of Gold data. My CPU time is about 6 hours so far.

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FXI and Gold Trends

I’ve updated the prediction models for the China 25 index (FXI) and for Gold.

FXI - UP
Gold - UP

Gold has been doing nothing for the past few weeks and its desperately trying to break through the $700 barrier. My guess is that Bernanke’s comments on subsiding inflation is taking the wind out of Gold.
In other [...]

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FXI & Gold Trends

I’m sneaking in a quick post on this cloudy Memorial Day because my kids and guests are all sleeping. I’ve downloaded and updated the prediction data sets for my FXI and Gold models, both trends remain UP.
[tags]FXI, Gold, Trends, AI, NeuralNets, Models, Analysis, ETF[/tags]

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Agriculture Index - ($GKX)

I worked in my vegetable garden for most of the weekend and with every weed I plucked, the words “Ethanol” and “bio-fuel” kept popping in my head. I know that everywhere I turn, I see and hear about how Ethanol is going to save us from oil dependence and global warming.
Despite my skepticism [...]

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Algorithmic Trading

Thoughts and discussion on building an Automated Trading System (ATS) using algorithms. A rudimentary ATS was created using statistical measures and implemented in real time.

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