PREDICTING STOCK MARKET MOVEMENT BY USING MACHINELEARNING ALGORITHM

In addition to the uncertainty and chaotic movements of the financial time series, the nonlinear dynamic structure makes the forecasts very difficult. The fact that the stock market index are affected by the political changes, the general outlook of the economy, the investors' expectations and investment preferences, and the movements of other indexes, make the index estimates quite difficult but attractive. It is known that the machine learning algorithms are successful in estimating stock index movements and their future values. In this study, the problem of forecasting the direction of BIST 100 index movements is discussed. Three different machine learning algorithms, artificial neural networks, support vector machines and na？ve Bayes classifier were used and their performances were compared. Ten technical indicators were used as inputs for the models. The data set consists of ten-year daily closing price values covering the 2009-2018 period. Analysis results show that the models can be used to capture stock market index movements, whereas artificial neural network algorithm is a better classifier