“…Some statisticalbased models have been widely used for crude oil prices forecasting. Typical models include the probabilistic model (Abramson and Finizza, 1995), econometric structural models (Huntington, 1994;Ye et al, 2002Ye et al, , 2005Ye et al, , 2006, co-integration analysis (Gulen, 1998), vector auto-regression models (VAR) (Mirmirani and Li, 2004), error correction models (ECM) (Lanza et al, 2005), auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) (Yu et al, 2008) and semi-parametric approach based on GARCH properties (Morana, 2001). Usually, these models can provide good prediction results when the crude oil price series under study is linear or near linear.…”