Implementation of Long Short-Term Memory and Gated Recurrent Units on grouped time-series data to predict stock prices accurately

Abstract

Abstract Stocks are an attractive investment option because they can generate large profits compared to other businesses. The movement of stock price patterns in the capital market is very dynamic. Therefore, accurate data modeling is needed to forecast stock prices with a low error rate. Forecasting models using Deep Learning are believed to be able to predict stock price movements accurately with time-series data input, especially the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) algorithms. Unfortunately, several previous studies and investigations of LSTM/GRU implementation have not yielded convincing performance results. This paper proposes eight new architectural models for stock price forecasting by identifying joint movement patterns in the stock market. The technique is to combine the LSTM and GRU models with four neural network block architectures. Then, the proposed architectural model is evaluated using three accuracy measures obtained from the loss function Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), Root Mean Squared Percentage Error (RMSPE), and Rooted Mean Dimensional Percentage Error (RMDPE). The three accuracies, MAPE, RMSPE, and RMDPE, represent lower accuracy, true accuracy, and higher accuracy in using the model.

Keywords

• Forecasting methods
• Time-series forecasting
• Deep Learning
• Stock price
• Recurrent Neural Network
• Long-Short Term Memory