Machine Learning-Based Decision-Making for Stock Trading: Case Study for Automated Trading in Saudi Stock Exchange

Table 9

A side-by-side comparison, reported by total returns, between our method (best and optimal settings of S/L and T/P) and the buy-hold strategy for each stock symbol.

Stock symbol	Our method (best) (%)	Our method (optimal) (%)	Buy-Hold (%)
Jarir	70	107	73
Sabic	35	50	23
Alrajhi	132	161	125
STC	45	84	72
Albilad	101	134	84
Alinma	59	75	45
Aldrees	246	246	117
Alothaim	34	90	76
Mobily	56	145	87
Tkaful	81	106	58
Total	86	119	76