Forecasting and classification of Indian stocks using different polynomial functional link artificial neural networks

Forecasting stock price index is one of the major challenges in the trade market for investors. Time series data for prediction are difficult to manipulate, but can be focused as segments to discover interesting patterns. In this paper we use several functional link artificial neural networks to get such patterns for predicting stock indices. The novel architecture of functional link artificial neural network with working principle of different models are provided to achieve best forecasting and classification with increase in accuracy of prediction and decrease in training time. Various FLANN models with different polynomials are investigated using different Indian stock indices like IBM, BSE, Oracle, & RIL. The main absolute percentage error (MAPE), sum squared error (SSE) and the standard deviation error (SDE) have been considered to measure the performance of the different FLANN models. In this paper we have presented the result using Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) stock data between 22/12/1999 to 30/12/2011 on closed price of every trading day.