From forex forecast to forex signal. Level 0 forecast discrimination.

Source: www.forexautomaton.com

Some opportunities for analysis are offered by the fact that the forex trading system such as Danica gives not just a forecast for the next close, but a combination of next high, low and close. This report is the first attempt to develop a selective approach to the forecasts, a discrimination algorithm of sorts, such that a decision to give the forecast further consideration or ignore it would be based on the information contained in the forecast itself.


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