The motivation for this paper is to show the usefulness of the information contained in the open-to-close (day) and close-to-open (night) periods compared to the more frequently used close-to-close period. To show this we construct two versions of a contrarian strategy, where the worst...

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Trading and investments with traditional computational intelligence techniques -- pt. 3. Trading and investments with artificial neural networks -- pt. 4. Trading and investments with hybrid evolutionary methodologies -- pt. 5. Trading and investments with advanced...