Prediction of high-frequency futures return directions based on the mean uncertainty classification methods: An application in China's future market

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author Peng, Ying
Zhang, Yifan
Wang, Xin
author_facet Peng, Ying
Zhang, Yifan
Wang, Xin
contents In this paper, we mainly focus on the prediction of short-term average return directions in China's high-frequency futures market. As minor fluctuations with limited amplitude and short duration are typically regarded as random noise, only price movements of sufficient magnitude qualify as statistically significant signals. Therefore data imbalance emerges as a key problem during predictive modeling. From the view of data distribution imbalance, we employee the mean-uncertainty logistic regression (mean-uncertainty LR) classification method under the sublinear expectation (SLE) framework, and further propose the mean-uncertainty support vector machines (mean-uncertainty SVM) method for the prediction. Corresponding investment strategies are developed based on the prediction results. For data selection, we utilize trading data and limit order book data of the top 15 liquid products among the most active contracts in China's future market. Empirical results demonstrate that comparing with conventional LR-related and SVM-related imbalanced data classification methods, the two mean-uncertainty approaches yields significant advantages in both classification metrics and average returns per trade.
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spellingShingle Prediction of high-frequency futures return directions based on the mean uncertainty classification methods: An application in China's future market
Peng, Ying
Zhang, Yifan
Wang, Xin
Trading and Market Microstructure
91B82, 68T10,
I.6.3; J.4
In this paper, we mainly focus on the prediction of short-term average return directions in China's high-frequency futures market. As minor fluctuations with limited amplitude and short duration are typically regarded as random noise, only price movements of sufficient magnitude qualify as statistically significant signals. Therefore data imbalance emerges as a key problem during predictive modeling. From the view of data distribution imbalance, we employee the mean-uncertainty logistic regression (mean-uncertainty LR) classification method under the sublinear expectation (SLE) framework, and further propose the mean-uncertainty support vector machines (mean-uncertainty SVM) method for the prediction. Corresponding investment strategies are developed based on the prediction results. For data selection, we utilize trading data and limit order book data of the top 15 liquid products among the most active contracts in China's future market. Empirical results demonstrate that comparing with conventional LR-related and SVM-related imbalanced data classification methods, the two mean-uncertainty approaches yields significant advantages in both classification metrics and average returns per trade.
title Prediction of high-frequency futures return directions based on the mean uncertainty classification methods: An application in China's future market
topic Trading and Market Microstructure
91B82, 68T10,
I.6.3; J.4
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06914