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Forecasting Portfolio Performance

Chapter Query

Softeck has offered an investment consultancy firm a software package. The company representative assures the investment firm consistent returns since the package uses non-linear tools to predict stock returns. The software has the additional capability of incorporating intra-day prices into its database and provides possible buy and sell points for expected returns supplied as an input. The investment firm has been offered a 2 week trial period and the following portfolios had been suggested by the package. A hypothetical buy/sell scenario was built to examine the feasibility of the package in actual practice.

The following observations have been made during the first two weeks:

Should ...

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