{"title":"The role of attribute selection in Deep ANNs learning framework for high-frequency financial trading","authors":"Monira Essa Aloud","doi":"10.1002/isaf.1466","DOIUrl":"10.1002/isaf.1466","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In financial trading, technical and quantitative analysis tools are used for the development of decision support systems. Although these traditional tools are useful, new techniques in the field of machine learning have been developed for time-series forecasting. This paper analyses the role of attribute selection on the development of a simple deep-learning ANN (D-ANN) multi-agent framework to accomplish a profitable trading strategy in the course of a series of trading simulations in the foreign exchange market. The paper evaluates the performance of the D-ANN multi-agent framework over different time spans of high-frequency (HF) intraday asset time-series data and determines how a set of the framework attributes produces effective forecasting for profitable trading. The paper shows the existence of predictable short-term price trends in the market time series, and an understanding of the probability of price movements may be useful to HF traders. The results of this paper can be used to further develop financial decision-support systems and autonomous trading strategies for the financial market.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53473,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management","volume":"27 2","pages":"43-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/isaf.1466","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127453318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Call for papers about Google duplex and related developments","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/isaf.1453","DOIUrl":"10.1002/isaf.1453","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53473,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management","volume":"26 4","pages":"203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/isaf.1453","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122712354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Call for papers - special issue on “AI and big data in accounting and finance”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/isaf.1452","DOIUrl":"10.1002/isaf.1452","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53473,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management","volume":"26 4","pages":"202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/isaf.1452","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116885447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blockchain for tracking serial numbers in money exchanges","authors":"Kareem Mohamed, Amr Aziz, Belal Mohamed, Khaled Abdel-Hakeem, Mostafa Mostafa, Ayman Atia","doi":"10.1002/isaf.1462","DOIUrl":"10.1002/isaf.1462","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Money exchange is one of the most common day-to-day activities performed by humans in the daily market. This paper presents an approach to money tracking through a blockchain. The proposed approach consists of three main components: serial number localization, serial number recognition, and a blockchain to store all transactions and ownership transfers. The approach was tested with a total of 110 banknotes of different currency types and achieved an average accuracy of 91.17%. We conducted a user study in real-time with 21 users, and the mean accuracy across all users was 86.42%. Each user gave us feedback on the proposed approach, and most of them welcomed the idea.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53473,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management","volume":"26 4","pages":"193-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/isaf.1462","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114706317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ferhat D. Zengul, James D. Byrd Jr, Nurettin Oner, Mark Edmonds, Arline Savage
{"title":"Exploring corporate governance research in accounting journals through latent semantic and topic analyses","authors":"Ferhat D. Zengul, James D. Byrd Jr, Nurettin Oner, Mark Edmonds, Arline Savage","doi":"10.1002/isaf.1461","DOIUrl":"10.1002/isaf.1461","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The literature on corporate governance (CG) has been expanding at an unprecedented rate since major corporate scandals surfaced, such as Enron, WorldCom, and HealthSouth. Corresponding with accounting's important role in CG, accounting scholars increasingly have investigated CG in recent years, so the body of literature is growing. Although previous attempts have been made to summarize extant literature on CG via reviews, none of these attempts has utilized recent developments in text analyses and natural language processing. This study uses latent semantic and topic analyses to address this research gap by analysing abstracts from 1,399 articles in all accounting journals that the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) has rated A and A*. The ABDC journal list is widely recognized as a journal-quality indicator across many universities worldwide. The analyses revealed 10 distinct research topics on CG in the ABDC's top accounting journals. The results presented include the five most representative articles for each topic, as distinguished by topic scores. This study carries important practice and policy implications, as it reveals major research streams and exhibits how researchers respond to various CG problems.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53473,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management","volume":"26 4","pages":"175-192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/isaf.1461","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126409837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using long short-term memory neural networks to analyze SEC 13D filings: A recipe for human and machine interaction","authors":"Murat Aydogdu, Hakan Saraoglu, David Louton","doi":"10.1002/isaf.1464","DOIUrl":"10.1002/isaf.1464","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We implement an efficient methodology for extracting themes from Securities Exchange Commission 13D filings using aspects of human-assisted active learning and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks. Sentences from the ‘Purpose of Transaction’ section of each filing are extracted and a randomly chosen subset is labelled based on six filing themes that the existing literature on shareholder activism has shown to have an impact on stock returns. We find that an LSTM neural network that accepts sentences as input performs significantly better, with precision of 77%, than an alternately specified neural network that uses the common bag of words approach. This indicates that both sentence structure and vocabulary are important in classifying SEC 13D filings. Our study has important implications, as it addresses the recent cautions raised in the literature that analysis of finance and accounting-related text sources should move beyond bag-of-words approaches to alternatives that incorporate the analysis of word sense and meaning reflecting context.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53473,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management","volume":"26 4","pages":"153-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/isaf.1464","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134364152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stock price prediction using DEEP learning algorithm and its comparison with machine learning algorithms","authors":"Mahla Nikou, Gholamreza Mansourfar, Jamshid Bagherzadeh","doi":"10.1002/isaf.1459","DOIUrl":"10.1002/isaf.1459","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Security indices are the main tools for evaluation of the status of financial markets. Moreover, a main part of the economy of any country is constituted of investment in stock markets. Therefore, investors could maximize the return of investment if it becomes possible to predict the future trend of stock market with appropriate methods. The nonlinearity and nonstationarity of financial series make their prediction complicated. This study seeks to evaluate the prediction power of machine-learning models in a stock market. The data used in this study include the daily close price data of iShares MSCI United Kingdom exchange-traded fund from January 2015 to June 2018. The prediction process is done through four models of machine-learning algorithms. The results indicate that the deep learning method is better in prediction than the other methods, and the support vector regression method is in the next rank with respect to neural network and random forest methods with less error.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53473,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management","volume":"26 4","pages":"164-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/isaf.1459","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122921986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some issues in blockchain for accounting and the supply chain, with an application of distributed databases to virtual organizations†","authors":"Daniel E. O'Leary","doi":"10.1002/isaf.1457","DOIUrl":"10.1002/isaf.1457","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper reviews some recent blockchain-based applications for information capture, distribution and preservation. As part of that review, this paper examines two key concerns with current blockchain designs for accounting and supply chain transactions: data independence and multiple semantic models for the same information distribution problem. Blockchain applications typically integrate database, application and presentation tiers all in the same ledger. This results in a general inability to query information in the ledger and other concerns. Further, since most applications appear to be private blockchain applications, there is a concern of agents needing to accommodate multiple blockchains depending on who their trading partners are and what they request. Finally, this paper uses a distributed database to design a ‘blockchain-like’ system for virtual organizations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53473,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management","volume":"26 3","pages":"137-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/isaf.1457","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127658488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Co-evolved genetic programs for stock market trading","authors":"Jason F. Nicholls, Andries P. Engelbrecht","doi":"10.1002/isaf.1458","DOIUrl":"10.1002/isaf.1458","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The profitability of trading rules evolved by three different optimised genetic programs, namely a single population genetic program (GP), a co-operative co-evolved GP, and a competitive co-evolved GP is compared. Profitability is determined by trading thirteen listed shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) over a period of April 2003 to June 2008. An empirical study presented here shows that GPs can generate profitable trading rules across a variety of industries and market conditions. The results show that the co-operative co-evolved GP generates trading rules perform significantly worse than a single population GP and a competitively co-evolved GP. The results also show that a competitive co-evolved GP and the single population GP produce similar trading rules. The profits returned by the evolved trading rules are compared to the profit returned by the buy-and-hold trading strategy. The evolved trading rules significantly outperform the buy-and-hold strategy when the market trends downwards. No significant difference is identified among the buy-and-hold strategy, the competitive co-evolved GP, and single population GP when the market trends upwards.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53473,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management","volume":"26 3","pages":"117-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/isaf.1458","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115068287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the predictability of range-based volatility estimators using recurrent neural networks","authors":"Gábor Petneházi, József Gáll","doi":"10.1002/isaf.1455","DOIUrl":"10.1002/isaf.1455","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate the predictability of several range-based stock volatility estimates and compare them with the standard close-to-close estimate, which is most commonly acknowledged as the volatility. The patterns of volatility changes are analysed using long short-term memory recurrent neural networks, which are a state-of-the-art method of sequence learning. We implement the analysis on all current constituents of the Dow Jones Industrial Average index and report averaged evaluation results. We find that the direction of changes in the values of range-based estimates are more predictable than that of the estimate from daily closing values only.</p>","PeriodicalId":53473,"journal":{"name":"Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management","volume":"26 3","pages":"109-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/isaf.1455","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117029782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}