This is one of those good and useful articles. Thank you so much, i was so blinded that my only way of analysis was on direct data stream. This is something that could prove really useful to me along with Heuristic Analysis. I will make my own implementation in the future and try to use the embedded MT5 charting functions instead.
However, i'm running the script with the graphical tool provided, it compiles and displays but data is shown as a square wave pattern only. Is this a normal behaviour?
I tried different symbols at different time periods on different date intervals, also i tried to set the 'n' value to something smaller then larger but attain the same results.
Actually, this is not a good article. EMD is not a causal technique. This means that its past values change in real time, rendering it utterly and completely useless for trading. It's in the same category as Singular Spectrum Analysis, the Hodrick-Prescott filter and all types of splines. It looks o so good on a static chart, but in real time it is no better than a LWMA. Just place a SMA(1) on the result of your EMD line and you will see how bumpy it becomes... Nice from a research/scientific point of view, useless in trading.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Huang_transform
2. And Google picture of Empirical Mode Decomposition.
3. This probably one of my dumb comment of so many :). A little bit irony in here. The first thing to do, before calculating EMD, is to find the maxima and minima (see below). If we could do that already, then we're already make money. Finding maxima/minima is what we do around here.
The wikipedia also mention (under limitation) that "Datig and Schlurmann [2004] did the most comprehensive studies on the performance and limitations of HHT with particular applications to irregular waves. ... The authors discussed using additional points, both forward and backward, to determine better envelopes.".
4. Filtering out noises - that's what this all about.
- en.wikipedia.org
This is supposed to be an aternative and better method :Hilbert Vibration Decomposing http://hitech.technion.ac.il/feldman/hvd.html Maybe author or somebody with electronic engineering background write a new article.
Actually, this is not a good article. EMD is not a causal technique. This means that its past values change in real time, rendering it utterly and completely useless for trading. It's in the same category as Singular Spectrum Analysis, the Hodrick-Prescott filter and all types of splines. It looks o so good on a static chart, but in real time it is no better than a LWMA. Just place a SMA(1) on the result of your EMD line and you will see how bumpy it becomes... Nice from a research/scientific point of view, useless in trading.
Hey everyone,
i am struggling to form a logical path to implement the EMD technique together with SVM-regressions. Most papers i read about (E)EMD-SVM (e.g. "Short-term prediction of stock index based on EMD and SVMs") decompose the complete time series first before implementing the SVM learning path.
But i noticed that if i add one additional dataset (t+1) to the time series, the EMD algorithm changes almost every single IMF value (even the number of IMF can change too (for the same date in the past)) than it was before.
Therefore, i am concerned that if i split my data set into a learning period (e.g. 2002-2010) and want to make out-of-sample forecasts (e.g. 2011) my EMD decomposed IMFs should only contain data from 2002-2010 to predict 2011, right? Predcting 2011 with IMF-time-series calculated with the EMD data set (2002-2011) would incorporate information from the "future" making my backtesting results not valid, right?
So for every one-step forward prediction my EMD must be calculated with the additional data points ... then the SVM-regressions can be performed to backtest such a model, right? This recursive method could be "BUMPY" as the MisterH mentioned above, making it useless for backtesting/trading strategy?

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