Research Article

Chinese Currency Exchange Rates Forecasting with EMD-Based Neural Network

Table 3

comparisons for different models.

1-day5-day10-day20-day30-day

Panel A: MLP model
MLP(3)51.7453.49
MLP(5)51.9855.17
MLP(5,3)50.1854.93
MLP(6,4)48.9855.41

Panel B: EMD-MLP model
EMD(-1)-MLP(3)
EMD(-1)-MLP(5,3)
EMD(-2)-MLP(3)
EMD(-2)-MLP(5,3)
EMD(-3)-MLP(3)
EMD(-3)-MLP(5,3)

Panel C: EMD-MLP model
EMD(0)-MLP(3)
EMD(0)-MLP(5,3)
EMD(-1)-MLP(3)
EMD(-1)-MLP(5,3)
EMD(-2)-MLP(3)
EMD(-2)-MLP(5,3)

Consider CNY from January 2, 2006, to December 21, 2015, with a total of 2584 observations. This table compares the forecasting performance, in terms of the , for the MLP, EMD-MLP, and EMD-MLP models. We report as percentage for l-day ahead predictions where and 30. Moreover, we examine the ability of all models to predict the direction of change by the DAC test [40]. , , and denote statistical significance at 1%, 5%, and 10%, respectively. For each length of prediction, we mark the maximum as bold.