This paper evaluates the predictive performance of machine learning methods in forecasting European stock returns. Compared to a linear benchmark model, interactions and nonlinear effects help improve the predictive performance. But machine learning models must be adequately trained and tuned to...

The Vietnamese stock market provides an interesting and enriching test field for the application of trading expert systems as its economy is opening up, has high growth rate and may offer risk diversification opportunities. This paper examines the question of whether this frontier emerging...