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Can We Use MARS Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines In Day Trading?

In a previous post, we talked about how to use neural networks in predicting the weekly candles. We used an Elman Recurrent Neural Network. The problem that we encountered was with the neural network getting stuck up with a local minima. R took 20 minutes to do the calculations. 20 minutes is a pretty long… Continue reading Can We Use MARS Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines In Day Trading?

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