current era. The basic idea is to take advantage of
the information available in the data from the past
evolution of the series and use it to determine, at
least partially, its future evolution. These methods
aim to show empirically, that a model covering
several dynamics can predict financial series and
affirm which one is the most productive.
2 Literature Review
The financial literature pays a lot of attention to the
question of market efficiency. On the one hand,
some defend the idea that financial asset prices vary
randomly and independently from previous
statements. Thus, they support the idea that
generating more profit comes mainly from taking
more risks. While, on the other hand, others argue
that financial series are predictable and are not
completely ruled by chance. In this sense, Louis
Bachelier (1900) indicates that the trajectory of
stock prices is only a succession of random steps
[1]. Hence, this implies that the mathematical
expectation of a speculator is zero. On the other
hand, Fama in the year 1965 carried out an
empirical study of market efficiency, where he
concluded that the prices of stock market assets
adjust instantly to the arrival of new information [2].
Next, Harry Roberts (1967) suggested dividing
efficiency into three forms (weak, semi-strong, and
strong) depending on the type of information that
the market takes into consideration to reflect the
current prices of securities [3]. However, Samuelson
in the year 2016 shows that prices fluctuate
randomly based on the concept of a martingale [4].
There are several approaches to analyzing and
predicting market developments. First, we can find
the sentiment analysis that considers non-
quantifiable data in its approach and analyzes the
public flow of information like articles and
publications to get an overall insight into the trend
of the stock market. On the other hand, we have the
fundamental analysis which is based on studying
microeconomic factors like debt levels and
macroeconomic factors such as inflation to explain
the change in prices in the medium to long term. In
this respect, Cheung, Chung, & Kim, 1997, Chung
& Kim, 2001 and Lo & MacKinlay, 2002 carried
out a series of statistical analyzes over the period
between 1988 and 2000 and concluded that the
prediction of the intrinsic value of stocks is possible
using models that rely on financial ratios and the
cost of equity [5, 6, 7]. Next, we have the technical
analysis that uses historical data of stock to help us
get an idea about trends of future movements. This
way, Lo, Mamaysky, & Wang, (2000) in their study
confirmed the power of the technical analysis to
predict the movements of financial assets by
analyzing the results of technical analysis on US
equity markets from 1962 to 1996 [8]. Also, Brock,
Lakonishok, & LeBaron in the year 1992 showed
that these rules were able to generate more profit
than the market by analyzing a 90-year history of
daily Dow Jones stock prices Besides, we have
quantitative methods that will be subject to
comparison in our article [9]. These methods use
mathematical modeling, econometrics, and
advanced computational techniques for the analysis
and forecasting of movements in financial series.
We can define an econometric model as a
probabilistic mathematical model that attempts to
describe the random relationships between the
variables included in these models. They have been
used in the finance market to try to explain the
positive autocorrelations of the time series of
financial asset prices.
Among the most used statistical methods, we have
the family of ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated
Moving Average) approaches. The ARIMA model
was introduced in 1970 by Box and Jenkins. It
predicts the future values of a univariate time series
[10]. This model includes an autoregressive (AR)
part which describes the dependence between a
current moment and past moments and a moving
average (MA) part which captures the forecast error
at past moments. This methodology was very used
for short-term forecasting and quickly established
itself as an essential base for comparison. Many
extensions of this method have been suggested
subsequently. The ARIMAX method makes it
possible to integrate exogenous variables into the
model. It is used in particular to integrate
meteorological data into the forecast, but also
information from data provided by a clustering
algorithm. The Seasonal ARIMA (SA-RIMA)
model is used to model the seasonality of data. A lot
of studies fall into this scope, like the work of
Hamilton in 1994 and Lo and Mackinlay in 2002
which describes all the econometric models and
techniques used for the analysis and prediction of
financial time series [11, 7]. Moreover, Jarrett, J., &
Schilling, J. in 2008 concluded from their
experience in the German market that autoregressive
econometric models can predict the change in the
returns of the stocks used [12].
Therefore, the majority of studies have shown the
existence of positive autocorrelations for financial
time series, which means that autoregressive models
are useful for the prediction of these series. Today,
the financial markets have access to other
interesting measurement tools, rather than the
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on ENVIRONMENT and DEVELOPMENT
DOI: 10.37394/232015.2022.18.93
Kaoutar Abbahaddou,
Mohammed Salah Chiadmi