The Efficient Markets Hypothesis provides a theoretical basis for trading rules. Technical trading rules provide a signal of when to buy or sell an asset based on such price patterns to the user. Technical traders tend to put little faith in strict efficient markets. Fundamentalists rely on...

We study the ability of artificial neural networks to price the European style call and put options on the S&P 500 index covering the daily data for the period from June 2004 to June 2007. The greatest advantage of option pricing with neural networks is that we do not need to make any...