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A Hybrid Radial Basis Function and Particle Swarm Optimization Neural Network Approach in Forecasting the EUR/GBP Exchange Rates Returns

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The motivation for this paper is to introduce in Finance a hybrid Neural Network architecture of Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization and Radial Basis Function (ARBF-PSO) and a Neural Network fitness function for financial forecasting purposes. This is done by benchmarking the ARBF-PSO results with those of three different Neural Networks architectures and three statistical/technical models. As it turns out, the ARBF-PSO architecture outperforms all other models in terms of statistical accuracy and trading efficiency in the examined forecasting task.

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Sermpinis, G., Theofilatos, K., Karathanasopoulos, A., Georgopoulos, E., Dunis, C. (2012). A Hybrid Radial Basis Function and Particle Swarm Optimization Neural Network Approach in Forecasting the EUR/GBP Exchange Rates Returns. In: Jayne, C., Yue, S., Iliadis, L. (eds) Engineering Applications of Neural Networks. EANN 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 311. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32909-8_42

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