An Alternative Framework for Time Series Decomposition and Forecasting and its Relevance for Portfolio Choice – A Comparative Study of the Indian Consumer Durable and Small Cap Sectors

Journal of Economics Library, Vol 3, No 2, June 2016, Forthcoming

30 Pages Posted: 21 May 2016

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Jaydip Sen

Praxis Business School

Tamal Chaudhuri

Calcutta Business School

Date Written: May 10, 2016

Abstract

One of the challenging research problems in the domain of time series analysis and forecasting is making efficient and robust prediction of stock market prices. With rapid development and evolution of sophisticated algorithms and with the availability of extremely fast computing platforms, it has now become possible to effectively extract, store, process and analyze high volume stock market time series data. Complex algorithms for forecasting are now available for speedy execution over parallel architecture leading to fairly accurate results. In this paper, we have used time series data of the two sectors of the Indian economy – Consumer Durables sector and the Small Cap sector for the period January 2010 – December 2015 and proposed a decomposition approach for better understanding of the behavior of each of the time series. Our contention is that various sectors reveal different time series patterns and understanding them is essential for portfolio formation. Further, based on this structural analysis, we have also proposed several robust forecasting techniques and analyzed their accuracy in prediction using suitably chosen training and test data sets. Extensive results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our propositions.

Keywords: Time Series, Decomposition, Trend, Seasonal, Random, Holt Winters Forecasting model, ARIMA, R Programming Language, BSE Consumer Durables Index, BSE Small Cap Index

JEL Classification: G11, G14, G17, C63

Suggested Citation

Sen, Jaydip and Chaudhuri, Tamal, An Alternative Framework for Time Series Decomposition and Forecasting and its Relevance for Portfolio Choice – A Comparative Study of the Indian Consumer Durable and Small Cap Sectors (May 10, 2016). Journal of Economics Library, Vol 3, No 2, June 2016, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2782240

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Tamal Chaudhuri

Calcutta Business School ( email )

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