A NOVEL HYBRID FRACTAL INTERPOLATION-SVM MODEL FOR FORECASTING STOCK PRICE INDEXES

Forecasting stock price indexes has been regarded as a challenging task in financial time series analysis. In order to improve the prediction accuracy, a novel hybrid model that integrates fractal interpolation with support vector machine (SVM) models has been developed in this paper to forecast the time series of stock price indexes. For this, a new method to calculate the vertical scaling factors of the fractal interpolation iterated function system is first proposed and an improved fractal interpolation model is then established. The improved fractal interpolation model and the SVM model are integrated to predict the every 5-min high frequency index data of Shanghai Composite Index. The experimental results show that the hybrid model is suitable for forecasting the stock index time series with fractal characteristics. In addition, a comparison of the prediction accuracy is carried out among the hybrid model and other three commonly used models. The results show that the prediction performance of the hybrid model is superior to that of other three models.