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A real-time adaptive trading system using genetic programming 

Authors: M. A. H. dempster; C. M. Jones a
Affiliation:   a Now Director, Portfolio Management, Gensec International Asset Management and Visiting Teaching and Research Associate, Centre for Financial Research, Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge..
DOI: 10.1088/1469-7688/1/4/301
Publication Frequency: 8 issues per year
Published in: journal Quantitative Finance, Volume 1, Issue 4 April 2001 , pages 397 - 413
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Abstract

Technical analysis indicators are widely used by traders in financial and commodity markets to predict future price levels and enhance trading profitability. We have previously shown a number of popular indicator-based trading rules to be loss-making when applied individually in a systematic manner. However, technical traders typically use combinations of a broad range of technical indicators. Moreover, successful traders tend to adapt to market conditions by 'dropping' trading rules as soon as they become loss-making or when more profitable rules are found. In this paper we try to emulate such traders by developing a trading system consisting of rules based on combinations of different indicators at different frequencies and lags. An initial portfolio of such rules is selected by a genetic algorithm applied to a number of indicators calculated on a set of US Dollar/British Pound spot foreign exchange tick data from 1994 to 1997 aggregated to various intraday frequencies. The genetic algorithm is subsequently used at regular intervals on out-of-sample data to provide new rules and a feedback system is utilized to rebalance the rule portfolio, thus creating two levels of adaptivity. Despite the individual indicators being generally loss-making over the data period, the best rule found by the developed system is found to be modestly, but significantly, profitable in the presence of realistic transaction costs.
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