Stock Market Forecasting using Wavelet Neural Networks

Researcher: Kgaugelo Mphahlele, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: Dr Farai Mlambo, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Wavelet Neural Networks were inspired by neural networks as well as wavelet decomposition, and as such Zhang and Beneveniste sort to combine the two concepts. This particular network is often used in the financial industry for making forecasts related to the stock market and as such this Investigation sort to compare the results of stock market forecasts made several implementations of the Wavelet Neural Networks, with different activation functions. The main findings from this investigation found that the ShannonWavelet Neural Network and the GaussianNeural Network were the best performing followed by the Mexican Hat Neural Network.