“…ANNs have been used to solve various problems in many domains. Examples of financial applications of ANNs include predicting corporate bankruptcy (Anandarajan et al , ; Nasir et al , ; Cho et al , ), fraud detection (Lin et al , ; Huang et al , ), forecasting foreign exchange rates (Franses and Van Griensven, ; Yao and Tan, ), derivatives pricing and hedging (Bennell and Sutcliffe, ; Tseng et al , ), credit scoring (Hu and Ansell, ), forecasting stock markets, including index movement (Hassan et al , ; Dai et al , ), stock return prediction (Desai and Bharati, ), stock price forecast (Kim and Han, ; Lu ), portfolio selection and optimization (Ko and Lin, ; Yu et al , ), to mention a few.…”