Algorithmic Strategies for Precious Metals Price Forecasting

Gil Cohen
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Gil Cohen: Department of Management, Western Galilee Academic College, P.O. Box 2125, Acre 2412101, Israel

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 7, 1-12

Abstract: This research is the first attempt to create machine learning (ML) algorithmic systems that would be able to automatically trade precious metals. The algorithm uses three forecast methodologies: linear regression (LR), Darvas boxes (DB), and Bollinger bands (BB). Our data consists of 20 years of daily price data concerning five precious metals futures: gold, silver, copper, platinum, and palladium. We found that all of the examined precious metals’ current daily returns are negatively autocorrelated to their former day’s returns and identified lagged interdependencies among the examined metals. Silver futures prices were found to be best forecasted by our systems, and platinum the worst. Moreover, our system better forecasts price-up trends than downtrends for all examined techniques and commodities. Linear regression was found to be the best technique to forecast silver and gold prices trends, while the Bollinger band technique best fits palladium forecasting.

Keywords: precious metals; gold; silver; algorithmic trading; futures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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