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Main Authors: Liang, Yi, Unwin, James
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Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06393
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author Liang, Yi
Unwin, James
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Unwin, James
contents Reliable short term forecasting can provide potentially lifesaving insights into logistical planning, and in particular, into the optimal allocation of resources such as hospital staff and equipment. By reinterpreting COVID-19 daily cases in terms of candlesticks, we are able to apply some of the most popular stock market technical indicators to obtain predictive power over the course of the pandemics. By providing a quantitative assessment of MACD, RSI, and candlestick analyses, we show their statistical significance in making predictions for both stock market data and WHO COVID-19 data. In particular, we show the utility of this novel approach by considering the identification of the beginnings of subsequent waves of the pandemic. Finally, our new methods are used to assess whether current health policies are impacting the growth in new COVID-19 cases.
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spellingShingle COVID-19 Forecasts via Stock Market Indicators
Liang, Yi
Unwin, James
Populations and Evolution
Physics and Society
Trading and Market Microstructure
Applications
Reliable short term forecasting can provide potentially lifesaving insights into logistical planning, and in particular, into the optimal allocation of resources such as hospital staff and equipment. By reinterpreting COVID-19 daily cases in terms of candlesticks, we are able to apply some of the most popular stock market technical indicators to obtain predictive power over the course of the pandemics. By providing a quantitative assessment of MACD, RSI, and candlestick analyses, we show their statistical significance in making predictions for both stock market data and WHO COVID-19 data. In particular, we show the utility of this novel approach by considering the identification of the beginnings of subsequent waves of the pandemic. Finally, our new methods are used to assess whether current health policies are impacting the growth in new COVID-19 cases.
title COVID-19 Forecasts via Stock Market Indicators
topic Populations and Evolution
Physics and Society
Trading and Market Microstructure
Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06393