Combining Forecasts: An Application to Stock Exchange Index

Studying the historical data in stock exchange market and forecasting future is one of the hot topic in finance. There are many different methods and concepts in contemporary finance studies. This book analyzes the performance of individual forecasting methods and combination of those methods. From the simpler one to the more complicated one, many methods are applied to forecast the stock index. The results show that we can forecast better if we combine individual methods.

The author is holding bachelor, master, and PhD diplomas in mathematics, economics, and finance respectively. He worked for the International Black Sea University, Suleyman Sah University, International Burch University. He has been working in Ishik University, Erbil-Kurdistan Region/Iraq.