A Linear Regression Approach to Prediction of Stock Market Trading Volume: A Case Study

Abstract

Predicting daily behavior of stock market is a serious challenge for investors and corporate stockholders and it can help them to invest with more confident by taking risks and fluctuations into consideration. In this paper, by applying linear regression for predicting behavior of S&P 500 index, we prove that our proposed method has a similar and good performance in comparison to real volumes and the stockholders can invest confidentially based on that.