Use Box-Jenkins methodology to predict and study the causal relationship between the general index and trading volume in the Damascus Securities Exchang

The general index of the financial market of the important economic indicators in any country is being reflects the economic situation and economic activity in the country, so attention must be appropriate methods for predicting the performance of this indicator in the future and look at the factors that affect in it . This study aimed to the conclusion based, follow Box-Jenkins methodology for building predictive models ARMA (p, q) and check models" residuals, and predict the performance of the general index of Damascus Securities Exchange DWX, as well as the volume of trading in this market, and studying the impact of the relationship between them .