Ward Systems Group Logo - Artificial Intelligence, Genetic Algorithm and Neural Network Software   
Using NeuroShell Classifier for Fundamental Stock Selection

There are some major companies who make their stock selections every day using the NeuroShell Classifier. Although we helped these companies and are non-disclosed to tell you who they are, what we taught them to do is very easy, and anyone can do it. 

The hardest part of the process is obtaining good, clean, fundamental data on a fairly large number of stocks. We are not talking about just price data or transformations of price data like moving averages and stochastic indicators. That sort of analysis is called technical analysis and is best done with our NeuroShell Trader software. We are talking instead about such fundamental factors as revenue growth, long term debt, insider trading, dividend yields, etc. 

Many companies provide this data for a fee, with varying degrees of cleanliness. One of the best sources as of this writing, according to some of our customers, is the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) www.aaii.com. If you join you get access to their database, which has dozens of fields for thousands of stocks, and the price is very reasonable.  

You’ll need to collect data on at least several hundred stocks, and that data needs to be at least 3 months old. That’s because the neural net will need to evaluate how well the stock has done over the last 3 months (or you can use 6, 12, whatever you want) in terms of the fundamental data available at the beginning of that time. 

You load your fundamental data into a spreadsheet, each stock on a different row. You can have several rows for the same stock if each row represents fundamental data on that stock at different quarters. The columns contain the fundamental data variables (you can use technical variables too), and you create one column that describes how the stock performed over the next 3 months (or 6, 12, whatever). You may need to clean up bad data, or eliminate fields where the data is suspect or largely missing.

Next you start training nets with the NeuroShell Classifier. This may be an iterative process, where you choose to eliminate some variables that the Classifier tells you are not useful. You may make more variables, using calculations on the existing ones. When you are done, you have a model that, given recent fundamental data, gives you probabilities that each stock will perform well in the next 3 month period (or 6 or 12).

At each stage of this process, you will have free access to our experts to help you.

Here is a sample spreadsheet which gives you a general idea of how NeuroShell Classifier training data would be laid out.  For clarity, we have not included the numeric fundamental data.  Also, the actions on which the net is trained (Buy, Sell, Hold) are hypothetical actions which you would enter using any criteria you wish based on the stock's future movement some number of months after the indicated year and quarter when the fundamental data was recorded.

 

 

 

 

Ward Systems Group, Inc.
Executive Park West
5 Hillcrest Drive
Frederick, MD 21703

Email: sales@wardsystems.com
support@wardsystems.com
Copyright © 1997-2024 Ward Systems Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright Information
| Privacy Statement