Using a Differential Evolutionary Algorithm to Test the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Title
Using a Differential Evolutionary Algorithm to Test the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Publication Date
2012
Author(s)
Simmons, Phillip R
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Springer New York LLC
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1007/s10614-012-9314-2
UNE publication id
une:11913
Abstract
The proposition that a relatively new technology such as a differential evolutionary algorithm (DEA) can violate the weak form of the efficient market hypothesis is tested using daily data from the Australian share market from 2000 until 2008. An option trading strategy based on forecasts from a DEA is shown to perform better than a buy and hold strategy over parts of the sample space and, on average, over all of it. Speculators may make supernormal profits using new methodologies however such profits are unlikely to be sustained.
Link
Citation
Computational Economics, 40(4), p. 377-385
ISSN
1572-9974
0927-7099
Start page
377
End page
385

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