You are not really doing time-series prediction. You are trying to predict each element of Y from a single element of X, which means that you are just solving a standard kernelized regression problem.

Another problem is when computing the RBF kernel over a range of vectors [[0],[1],[2],...], you will get a band of positive values along the diagonal of the kernel matrix while values far from the diagonal will be close to zero. The test set portion of your kernel matrix is far from the diagonal and will therefore be very close to zero, which would cause all of the SVR predictions to be close to the bias term.

For time series prediction I suggest building the training test set as

 x[0]=Y[0:K]; y[0]=Y[K]
 x[1]=Y[1:K+1]; y[1]=Y[K+1]
 ...

that is, try to predict future elements of the sequence from a window of previous elements.

In the context of support vector regression, the fact that your data is a time series is mainly relevant from a methodological standpoint -- for example, you can't do a k-fold cross validation, and you need to take precautions when running backtests/simulations.

Basically, support vector regression is a discriminative regression technique much like any other discriminative regression technique. You give it a set of input vectors and associated responses, and it fits a model to try and predict the response given a new input vector. Kernel SVR, on the other hand, applies one of many transformations to your data set prior to the learning step. This allows it to pick up nonlinear trends in the data set, unlike e.g. linear regression. A good kernel to start with would probably be the Gaussian RBF -- it will have a hyperparameter you can tune, so try out a couple values. And then when you get a feeling for what's going on you can try out other kernels.

With a time series, an import step is determining what your "feature vector" will be; each is called a "feature" and can be calculated from present or past data, and each , the response, will be the future change over some time period of whatever you're trying to predict. Take a stock for example. You have prices over time. Maybe your features are a.) the 200MA-30MA spread and b.) 20-day volatility, so you calculate each at each point in time, along with , the (say) following week's return on that stock. Thus, your SVR learns how to predict the following week's return based on the present MA spread and 20-day vol. (This strategy won't work, so don't get too excited ;)).

If the papers you read were too difficult, you probably don't want to try to implement an SVM yourself, as it can be complicated. IIRC there is a "kernlab" package for R that has a Kernel SVM implementation with a number of kernels included, so that would provide a quick way to get up and running.

Here, a very good article: http://machinelearningmastery.com/time-series-forecasting-supervised-learning/

In a few words, define a window of size n and that is the size of your feature vector. Reshape the dataset and play.

let's assume you have monthly data, for example derived from Air Passengers data set. You don't need the timeseries-type data, just a data frame containing time steps and values. Let's name them x and y. Next you develop an svm model, and specify the time steps you need to forecast. Use the predict function to compute the forecast for given time steps. That's it. However, support vector machine is not commonly regarded as the best method for time series forecasting, especially for long series of data. It can perform good for few observations ahead, but I wouldn't expect good results for forecasting eg. daily data for a whole next year (but it obviously depends on data). Simple R code for SVM-based forecast:

# prepare sample data in the form of data frame with cols of timesteps (x) and values (y)  
data(AirPassengers) 
monthly_data <- unclass(AirPassengers)
months <- 1:144
DF <- data.frame(months,monthly_data)
colnames(DF)<-c("x","y")

# train an svm model, consider further tuning parameters for lower MSE
svmodel <- svm(y ~ x,data=DF, type="eps-regression",kernel="radial",cost=10000, gamma=10)
#specify timesteps for forecast, eg for all series + 12 months ahead
nd <- 1:156
#compute forecast for all the 156 months 
prognoza <- predict(svmodel, newdata=data.frame(x=nd))

#plot the results
ylim <- c(min(DF$y), max(DF$y))
xlim <- c(min(nd),max(nd))
plot(DF$y, col="blue", ylim=ylim, xlim=xlim, type="l")
par(new=TRUE)
plot(prognoza, col="red", ylim=ylim, xlim=xlim)