Stock Price Prediction Based on SSA and SVM

This paper, using the singular spectrum analysis (SSA), decomposes the stock price into terms of the trend, the market fluctuation, and the noise with different economic features over different time horizons, and then introduce these features into the support vector machine (SVM) to make price predictions. The empirical evidence shows that, compared with the SVM without these price features, the combination predictive methods-the EEMD-SVM and the SSA-SVM, which combine the price features into the SVMs perform better, with the best prediction to the SSA-SVM. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.