© Igor Livshin 2019
Igor LivshinArtificial Neural Networks with Javahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4421-0_11

11. The Importance of Selecting the Correct Model

Igor Livshin1 
(1)
Chicago, IL, USA
 

The example discussed in this chapter will end up showing a negative result. However, you can learn a lot from mistakes like this.

Example 7: Predicting Next Month’s Stock Market Price

In this example, you will try to predict next month’s price of the SPY exchange-traded fund (ETF); this is the ETF that mimics the S&P 500 stock market index. Someone’s rational for developing such a project could be something like this:

“We know that market prices are random, jumping daily up and down and reacting to different news. However, we are using the monthly prices, ...

Get Artificial Neural Networks with Java: Tools for Building Neural Network Applications now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.