I've sent the second proposal for the project today. The proposal has been narrowed down and the title has been changed. The new title is;

COMPUTER PROGRAMS THAT LEARN THROUGH EXPERIENCE: A CRITICAL APPROACH OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS APPLIED IN FINANCE TO STOCK MARKET FORECASTING

As the title suggests the project will initially research on artificial neural networks (ANN) on four different and well known algorithms. These algorithms will then be tested with stock market forecasting datasets to later compare the results. The software will be a data analysis software and have graphical and statistical tools to view the output. That's it for now, I will be updating you as I proceed and hopefully the project will be accepted by the supervisor. In August, I won't be updating the blog much as the supervisor is away for the entire month, and will only be deciding the proposal in September. In August, I will be working on programming and LSE maths modules; I will be blogging on those relevant topics.

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I have just gained some feedback for the project and my supervisor pointed out that this project is ambitious. I am expected to change the proposal. The change will only focus the project on a specific method and field. I have chosen Neural Network algorithms in the finance to forecast stock market. Meanwhile, there are some interesting developments in the field. Recently, BBC Technology, has published a full report on new computational ways and how the neural system influences this. Below are links.

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10685138
• http://www.newscientist.com/topic/brain

I could say the two hot fields in Computing today stand as Machine Learning and its algorithms and somethin non-related but important Network Security.

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