STOCK PRICE PREDICTION AND SIMULATION USING GEOMETRIC BROWNIAN MOTION-KALMAN FILTER: A COMPARISON BETWEEN KALMAN FILTER ALGORITHMS

Abstract

Stocks have high-profit potential but also have high risk. Many people have ways to forecast stock prices. The Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) method forecasts stock prices. The data used in this study are closing stock price data from July 1, 2021 to August 31, 2021 taken from Yahoo! Finance. The stocks used in this research are Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BBRI), Indofood Sukses Makmur (INDF), and Telkom Indonesia (TLKM). A strategy is carried out to improve prediction accuracy by utilising the Kalman Filter (KF). This research will compare the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) value between GBM-KF, which was manually computed and computed using the Python library. As an example of this research, for BBRI stock, the high GBM MAPE value of 9.02% can be reduced to 3.52% with manually computed GBM-KF and 3.68% with Python library computed GBM-KF. Similarly, INDF and TLKM stocks are showing a significant reduction in MAPE values to deficient levels in some cases. The GBM-KF method employing manual computing may enhance the overall precision of stock price forecasting. Future research may enhance this study by using the GBM-KF model on alternative financial instruments, integrating supplementary market data, or evaluating its efficacy under extreme market conditions.

Keywords

• geometric brownian motion
• kalman filter
• stocks price