Timing Market Volatility
When I was first introduced to data mining and modeling, I felt like I had found the goose that laid the golden egg. I thought, erroneously, that I could create a predictive model that would be able to tell me what the closing price would be for a specific asset. I successfully modeled the S&P500 Spiders (SPY) and was able to predict the daily closing price within a 3% price range. I soon learned that this only worked well when the market was trending in a one direction. If the market turned on a dime, as it usually does, the model would fall apart. ...