EDDIE In Financial Decision Making

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the EDDIE project. It describes the principles and applications of EDDIE in making financial decisions, including applications to share prices and indices forecasting and arbitrage. EDDIE is designed as an interactive decision tool, not a replacement of expert knowledge. Experts channel their knowledge into the system through (a) selection and preparation of data and (b) providing feedback to EDDIE. EDDIE’s main role is to explore interactions between variables and to find thresholds for the variables. Performance of EDDIE depends on both the quality of the users’ input and the efficiency of its genetic programming based search engine.