Lately I’ve been watching Youtube videos of Derren Brown, a UK mentalist. He uses techniques of pyshcology, hypnosis, and I believe neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to trick people’s minds. His main goal is to show people how charlatans, psychics, and other tricksters can pull the wool over our eyes. It’s a fascinating journey into malfunctions of [...]
My next Rapidminer Video Tutorial #4 on Evolutionary Weighting is done and needs to be cleaned up before I post it this weekend, so get ready for it. It’s one of the most intricate ones I’ve shared with my readers yet and will probably clock in over 20 minutes in length. We combine [...]
After playing around with Stock Neuromaster, I realized that it transforms the time series data into a zig zag line or moving average and then learns the relationship between it and the price & volume data. The zig zag line connects high and low points together based on a % retracement level you define [...]
I believe I’ve figured out, in concept, how the Stock Neuromaster product generates BUY/SELL signals and should be able to replicate it quite easily in Rapidminer. I’ll have to fool with some stock data and use some of Rapidminer’s special data pre-processing operators first and see where it gets me.
I hope to produce a [...]
Thanks to all who commented on my Soul Searching post from this past weekend, they were thoughtful, honest, and sincere. After spending the weekend thinking more about the future of Neural Market Trends, I’ve decided to keep it going but get back to my roots.
I want to concentrate on high quality but low [...]
I watched a BBC video documentary on the Singularity last week. I found this via Ugly’s Del.icio.us links. I know that Ugly is a huge Singularity fan and can’t wait for the day it will happen. Supposedly, all of mankind will make a huge leap forward in development and all kinds of [...]
