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Thanks a lot for you comment Zendini.. i really appreciate the fact that you decided to express your view on the subject...I still believe that NN have huge potential... i have recently read dozens of papers about empirical results starting from 1988... and i'm doing research on s&p500 data with very good results... I have also written a paper for a university project that i can't, unfortunately post on the blog for obvious reasons... so if you have doubts about the subject please refere to the following sources:

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