Open and Close Price Forecasting of the NIFTY 50 Stock Index Using Machine Learning: A Multi-Window Study of Feature Engineering and Model Tuning
Forecasting stock index prices remains a challenging task because financial markets are volatile, non-stationary, and influenced by several economic and behavioral factors. This study evaluates 12 supervised machine learning models against a Naïve Persistence baseline for predicting next-day open and close prices of th...