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This paper presents a basic theory of intelligent finance as a new paradigm of financial investment. It is assumed that the financial market is always in a state of swing between efficient and inefficient modes on multiple levels of time scale; it is possible to go beyond the efficient market theory to study the dynamic evolving process of the market between equilibrium and far-from-equilibrium; there are robust dynamic patterns in this evolving process, which may be exploitable via intelligent trading systems. On the foundation of the four principles - comprehensive, predictive, dynamic and strategic, the basic theory takes the information sources into the loop as the starting points for all the market analysis, introducing the scale space of time into the pricing process analysis in order to detect and capture trends, cycles and seasonality on multiple intrinsic levels of time scale which are then used as the dynamic basis for constructing and managing portfolios. In stock markets, the theory exhibits itself in the form of an Intelligent Dynamic Portfolio Theory, which integrates predictive modeling of a bullbear market cycle, sector rotation, and portfolio optimization with a reactive trend following trading strategy.
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This paper investigates t he predictability of moving average rules for the China stock market. We find that buy signals generate higher returns and less volatility, while returns following sell signals are negative and more volatile. Moreover, the bootstrapping results indicate that the asymmetrical patterns of return and volatility between buy and sell signals cannot be explained by four popular linear models of returns, especially the phenomenon of negative sell returns. We then test the nonlinear dynamic process of returns. Although the existing artificial neural network (ANN) model can replicate the negative sell returns, it fails to capture the volatility patterns of buy and sell returns. Furthermore, we introduce the conditional heteroskedasticity structure into the ANN model and find that the revised ANN model cannot only explain the predictability of returns, but can also capture the patterns of buy and sell volatility, which are never achieved by any linear model of returns tested in the related literature. Therefore, we conclude that the moving average trading rules can pick up some of the hidden nonlinear patterns in the dynamic process of stock returns, which may be the reason why they can be used to predict price changes.