Finance - superimposed cycles
S&P 500 closing prices
Forecasting of financial time-series may be enhanced if we can get at the underlying cycles and fluctuations. Let's see what a wavelet transform can provide.
But... "future" information has been used here to provide the wavelet coefficients at each scale. This isn't right!! The following gives a result which respects time. It is an additive decomposition. It is not a wavelet transform (the different scales are not of mean zero). It is based on a sliding, and growing, window, on the basis of which a wavelet transform is carried out.
Time-based multiscale transform
Based on the latter, the first reference cited below finds up to 86% correct prediction of the trend - up or down - 5 days ahead.