Using Rapidminer to model trends in the financial markets

Its an understatement that the US Dollar is in a downtrend.  Its pretty obvious which direction the greenback is going from the chart below.

My question to readers is this: if you were building a neural net model to tell you when to go LONG for a sustained rally and rebound in the US Dollar, [...]

I was surprised yesterday when I came back from a meeting to see that my proprietary market timing model issued a SELL.  I advise taking some profits here and being vigilant for another possible market sell off.

I built a quick neural net model for Apple Inc (AAPL) and found it to be a pretty good at predicting price direction. Reserving 15 days for testing, and testing the signals for the past 30 days, the model had a 22.47% rate of return (gross).
Right now the model has issued a SELL signal [...]

Actually its a time to SELL any positions you have in the Malaysia iShares (EWM). My neural net model issued a SELL signal for today’s open. Your estimated gross return for the most recent position is about 1.6% (not incl fees and commissions) based on yesterday’s close.
I really like EWM and have traded [...]

This is good news, my Timing Model volatility indicator is actually dropping. It peaked at 2.9 on 3/17 and has steadily dropped to 1.79 as of yesterday’s close. This confirms my cautious belief that the market has bottomed but we’re not out of the woods yet. Everything hinges on what Gold prices [...]

In case my readers are wondering, my neural net model for Exxon Mobil Corporation is still flashing a long HOLD. The position is showing a loss right now and so far I have not seeing any changes in the signal alerts.

In my Stock NeuroMaster Video Tutorial 2 I show my readers how to update new data for the Exxon Mobil (XOM) neural net model we built in the first Stock NeuroMaster Video Tutorial. Sound problems have been fixed!
You can download the Stock NeuroMaster program here to play along with these tutorials and sign up [...]

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