The software does not just use the data from a single market in its calculations, but takes into consideration the open, high, low, close, volume and open interest of nine other related markets as well. The complete VantagePoint suite consists of 21 different programs, each designed for a particular market. You're not obliged to take all of them. The program runs under DOS and is straightforward to install, though you must follow the instructions. Also included is the appropriate data for the market you wish to analyze.
Neural networks are excellent at detecting relationships in vast quantities of data.
The downside to this is that in operation they are computationally intensive. This doesn't mean you must have the latest processor to run VantagePoint, but if you are running it on an older machine without a math coprocessor it will be appreciably slower. Much of VantagePoint's focus is on the humble moving average. The core of the software lies in the reporting function that can produce daily and historical reports. The second section displays the neural network's prediction of the high and low for the next trading session, with the ones it has made for the previous four days.