Abstract

Stock price index is the initial significant factor influencing on investors' financial decision making. That's why
predicting the exact movements of stock price index is considerably regarded. This study aims at evaluating the
effectiveness of using technical indicators, such as Moving Average, RSI, CCI, MACD, etc in predicting
movements of Tehran Exchange Price Index (TEPIX). An artificial neural network is employed for stock price
index forecasting. The existing data are achieved from Tehran Stock Exchange. To capture the relationship
between the technical indicators and the levels of the index in the market for the period under investigation, a
back propagation neural network is used. The statistical and financial performance of this technique is evaluated
and empirical results revealed that artificial neural networks are dominant tools for financial market predicting.

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