%0 Journal Article %A Birol Yildiz and Abdullah Yalama and Metin Coskun %D 2008 %J International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 22, 2008 %T Forecasting the Istanbul Stock Exchange National 100 Index Using an Artificial Neural Network %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11383 %V 22 %X Many studies have shown that Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have been widely used for forecasting financial markets, because of many financial and economic variables are nonlinear, and an ANN can model flexible linear or non-linear relationship among variables. The purpose of the study was to employ an ANN models to predict the direction of the Istanbul Stock Exchange National 100 Indices (ISE National-100). As a result of this study, the model forecast the direction of the ISE National-100 to an accuracy of 74, 51%. %P 1063 - 1066