Research Article

Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul

Volume: 19 Number: 2 August 1, 2024
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Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul

Abstract

This study investigates index prediction performance of Relevance Vector Machines (RVM) and frequently applied Ridge Regression and Support Vector Machines (SVM). Daily prices of BIST Banks and BIST Financials indices of Borsa Istanbul are used to obtain one-day-ahead predictions of the algorithms. According to estimated performance measures, RVM yielded mostly the best metrics in both periods of BIST Banks. While SVM obtained the best performance metrics on BIST Financials index, metrics of RVM were not far from the best. Overall, the results indicate the applicability of RVM in predicting index directions and has a potential to be a good rival of SVM.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Econometrics (Other), Finance

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

August 1, 2024

Submission Date

December 4, 2023

Acceptance Date

February 4, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 2024 Volume: 19 Number: 2

APA
Özgür, C. (2024). Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, 19(2), 594-610. https://doi.org/10.17153/oguiibf.1400125
AMA
1.Özgür C. Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi. 2024;19(2):594-610. doi:10.17153/oguiibf.1400125
Chicago
Özgür, Cemile. 2024. “Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul”. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi 19 (2): 594-610. https://doi.org/10.17153/oguiibf.1400125.
EndNote
Özgür C (August 1, 2024) Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi 19 2 594–610.
IEEE
[1]C. Özgür, “Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul”, Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 594–610, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.17153/oguiibf.1400125.
ISNAD
Özgür, Cemile. “Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul”. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi 19/2 (August 1, 2024): 594-610. https://doi.org/10.17153/oguiibf.1400125.
JAMA
1.Özgür C. Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi. 2024;19:594–610.
MLA
Özgür, Cemile. “Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul”. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 19, no. 2, Aug. 2024, pp. 594-10, doi:10.17153/oguiibf.1400125.
Vancouver
1.Cemile Özgür. Relevance Vector Machines for Index Direction Predictions: An Application on Borsa Istanbul. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi. 2024 Aug. 1;19(2):594-610. doi:10.17153/oguiibf.1400125