Evolving Financial Trading Strategies with Vectorial Genetic Programming

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Auteurs principaux: Menoita, Rui, Silva, Sara
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author Menoita, Rui
Silva, Sara
author_facet Menoita, Rui
Silva, Sara
contents Establishing profitable trading strategies in financial markets is a challenging task. While traditional methods like technical analysis have long served as foundational tools for traders to recognize and act upon market patterns, the evolving landscape has called for more advanced techniques. We explore the use of Vectorial Genetic Programming (VGP) for this task, introducing two new variants of VGP, one that allows operations with complex numbers and another that implements a strongly-typed version of VGP. We evaluate the different variants on three financial instruments, with datasets spanning more than seven years. Despite the inherent difficulty of this task, it was possible to evolve profitable trading strategies. A comparative analysis of the three VGP variants and standard GP revealed that standard GP is always among the worst whereas strongly-typed VGP is always among the best.
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spellingShingle Evolving Financial Trading Strategies with Vectorial Genetic Programming
Menoita, Rui
Silva, Sara
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Establishing profitable trading strategies in financial markets is a challenging task. While traditional methods like technical analysis have long served as foundational tools for traders to recognize and act upon market patterns, the evolving landscape has called for more advanced techniques. We explore the use of Vectorial Genetic Programming (VGP) for this task, introducing two new variants of VGP, one that allows operations with complex numbers and another that implements a strongly-typed version of VGP. We evaluate the different variants on three financial instruments, with datasets spanning more than seven years. Despite the inherent difficulty of this task, it was possible to evolve profitable trading strategies. A comparative analysis of the three VGP variants and standard GP revealed that standard GP is always among the worst whereas strongly-typed VGP is always among the best.
title Evolving Financial Trading Strategies with Vectorial Genetic Programming
topic Neural and Evolutionary Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05418