Evaluation of varying portfolio construction of stocks using Genetic Network Programming with control nodes

A new evolutionary method named “Genetic Network Programming with control nodes, GNPcn” has been applied to determine the timing of buying or selling stocks. GNPcn represents its solutions as directed graph structures which has some useful features inherently. For example, GNPcn has an implicit memory function which memorizes the past action sequences of agents and GNPcn can re-use nodes repeatedly in the network flow, so very compact graph structures can be made. GNPcn can determine the strategy of buying and selling stocks of multi issues. And GNPcn can distribute the purchase capital to each stock based on the distribution ratio. The effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed by simulations.