• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.151-159
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• 2012

This paper proposes to develop multi-currencies portfolio strategy using principal component analysis (PCA) and logistic regression (LR) in foreign exchange market. While there is a great deal of literature about the analysis of exchange market, there is relatively little work on developing trading strategies in foreign exchange markets. There are two objectives in this paper. The first objective is to suggest portfolio allocation method by applying PCA. The other objective is to determine market timing which is the strategy of making buy or sell decision using LR. The results of this study show that proposed model is useful trading strategy in foreign exchange market and can be desirable solution which gives lots of investors an important investment information.