Thermal coal futures trading volume predictions through the neural network

B Jin, X Xu, Y Zhang - Journal of Modelling in Management, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Predicting commodity futures trading volumes represents an important matter to
policymakers and a wide spectrum of market participants. The purpose of this study is to …

[HTML][HTML] Smart horticulture as an emerging interdisciplinary field combining novel solutions: past development, current challenges, and future perspectives

M Zhang, Y Han, D Li, S Xu, Y Huang - Horticultural Plant Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Horticultural products such as fruits, vegetables, and tea offer a range of important nutrients
such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and lipids. However, the present yield and quality …

[HTML][HTML] Edible oil wholesale price forecasts via the neural network

X Xu, Y Zhang - Energy Nexus, 2023 - Elsevier
For a wide spectrum of agricultural market participants, building price forecasts of various
agricultural commodities has always been a vital project. In this work, we approach this …

Forecasting wholesale prices of yellow corn through the Gaussian process regression

B Jin, X Xu - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
For market players and policy officials, commodity price forecasts are crucial problems that
are challenging to address due to the complexity of price time series. Given its strategic …

Steel price index forecasting through neural networks: the composite index, long products, flat products, and rolled products

X Xu, Y Zhang - Mineral Economics, 2023 - Springer
Forecasting commodity prices is a vital issue to a wide spectrum of market participants and
policy makers in the metal sector. In this work, the forecast problem is investigated by …

Exogenous variable driven deep learning models for improved price forecasting of TOP crops in India

GHH Nayak, MW Alam, KN Singh, G Avinash… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Accurately predicting agricultural commodity prices is crucial for India's economy. Traditional
parametric models struggle with stringent assumptions, while machine learning (ML) …

Predicting open interest in thermal coal futures using machine learning

B Jin, X Xu - Mineral Economics, 2024 - Springer
In this study, our objective is to tackle the open interest prediction problem by centering on
the thermal coal futures traded on the Chinese Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, using …

Yellow corn wholesale price forecasts via the neural network

X Xu, Y Zhang - EconomiA, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Forecasts of commodity prices are vital issues to market participants and policy
makers. Those of corn are of no exception, considering its strategic importance. In the …

Scrap steel price forecasting with neural networks for east, north, south, central, northeast, and southwest China and at the national level

X Xu, Y Zhang - Ironmaking & Steelmaking, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
There is little doubt about importance of forecasting commodity prices to policy makers and
diverse varieties of market participants. In this present work, we analyse price forecasting …

Predicting wholesale edible oil prices through Gaussian process regressions tuned with Bayesian optimization and cross-validation

B Jin, X Xu - Asian Journal of Economics and Banking, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Developing price forecasts for various agricultural commodities has long been a
significant undertaking for a variety of agricultural market players. The weekly wholesale …