This paper addresses challenges relating to applying data mining techniques to detect stock price manipulations and extends previous results by incorporating the analysis of intraday trade prices in addition to closing prices for the investigation of trade-based manipulations. In particular,...

Purpose – Although the financial markets are regulated by robust systems and rules that control their efficiency and try to protect investors from various manipulation schemes, markets still suffer from frequent attempts to mislead or misinform investors in order to generate illegal profits....

This report discusses the preliminary results for the analysis of the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) using data mining techniques. The overall aim of the project is to investigate ways to identify trends or stages in the BDI associated with economic cycles, as well as other relationships with economic...