Automatic Trend Line Generation f or timeseries analysis: a Graphical Approach

Abstract

Trend lines are revealed useful to explain the past evolution of timeseries of prices that are represented on graphics. However, in practice, there are a huge amount of possible trend lines to be plotted but only a reduced set of them are significant or relevant. The rapid identification of relevant trend lines when they are in their initial phase of their development could provide interesting projections for the future evolution of time-series. This approach is focused on the graphical analysis of time-series -especially those coming from financia! asset prices- under a framework of trend lines.