Stock trend prediction based on a new status box method and AdaBoost probabilistic support vector machine

Stock trend prediction is regarded as one of the most challenging tasks of financial time series prediction. Conventional statistical modeling techniques are not adequate for stock trend forecasting because of the non-stationarity and non-linearity of the stock market. With this regard, many machine learning approaches are used to improve the prediction results. These approaches mainly focus on two aspects: regression problem of the stock price and prediction problem of the turning points of stock price. In this paper, we concentrate on the evaluation of the current trend of stock price and the prediction of the change orientation of the stock price in future. Then, a new approach named status box method is proposed. Different from the prediction issue of the turning points, the status box method packages some stock points into three categories of boxes which indicate different stock status. And then, some machine learning techniques are used to classify these boxes so as to measure whether the states of each box coincides with the stock price trend and forecast the stock price trend based on the states of the box. These results would support us to make buying or selling strategies. Comparing with the turning points prediction that only considered the features of one day, each status box contains a certain amount of points which represent the stock price trend in a certain period of time. So, the status box reflects more information of stock market. To solve the classification problem of the status box, a special features construction approach is presented. Moreover, a new ensemble method integrated with the AdaBoost algorithm, probabilistic support vector machine (PSVM), and genetic algorithm (GA) is constructed to perform the status boxes classification. To verify the applicability and superiority of the proposed methods, 20 shares chosen from Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) and 16 shares from National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) are applied to perform stock trend prediction. The results show that the status box method not only have the better classification accuracy but also effectively solve the unbalance problem of the stock turning points classification. In addition, the new ensemble classifier achieves preferable profitability in simulation of stock investment and remarkably improves the classification performance compared with the approach that only uses the PSVM or back-propagation artificial neural network (BPN).     

基于分段线性表示和高斯过程分类的股票转折点概率预测

针对股票交易过程中价格转折点的预测问题,提出了一种基于分段线性表示(PLR)与高斯过程分类(GPC)相结合的股票价格转折点预测算法PLR-GPC。该算法通过PLR提取股票历史价格序列的转折点,对转折点进行分类标记,建立基于GPC的股票价格转折点预测模型,以上述股票历史价格序列对模型进行训练,最终由预测模型对股票价格转折点进行预测,并对预测结果进行概率解释。将PLR-GPC与基于BP神经网络(BPN)的PLR-BPN算法、基于加权支持向量机支持向量机(WSVM)的PLR-WSVM算法进行实验对比:PLR-GPC在预测准确率上高于PLR-BPN与PLR-WSVM;在投资收益率上高于PLR-BPN,与PLR-WSVM持平。实验结果表明PLR-GPC在股票价格转折点的预测上是有效的,并且可以应用在实际股票投资交易中。     

Segmentation and Hashing of Time Series in Stock Market Prediction

In this paper, we associate each time series of a stock price (TS-P) in a stock market with a time series of hash codes (TS-HC) that indicate price increase or decrease for each element of the TS-P. As noted, in this case hash codes represent integer numbers and their sequence allows to identify the same (typical) groups of TS-P elements in the stock price dynamics. We describe the procedures for transforming an initial time series and calculating the hash codes. The main properties of a sequence of hash codes are established. Finally, we suggest an analysis and prediction method for a stock price trajectory using segmentation and hashing data.     

Integration of genetic fuzzy systems and artificial neural networks for stock price forecasting

Stock market prediction is regarded as a challenging task in financial time-series forecasting. The central idea to successful stock market prediction is achieving best results using minimum required input data and the least complex stock market model. To achieve these purposes this article presents an integrated approach based on genetic fuzzy systems (GFS) and artificial neural networks (ANN) for constructing a stock price forecasting expert system. At first, we use stepwise regression analysis (SRA) to determine factors which have most influence on stock prices. At the next stage we divide our raw data into k clusters by means of self-organizing map (SOM) neural networks. Finally, all clusters will be fed into independent GFS models with the ability of rule base extraction and data base tuning. We evaluate capability of the proposed approach by applying it on stock price data gathered from IT and Airlines sectors, and compare the outcomes with previous stock price forecasting methods using mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). Results show that the proposed approach outperforms all previous methods, so it can be considered as a suitable tool for stock price forecasting problems.     

A hybrid evolutionary dynamic neural network for stock market trend analysis and prediction using unscented Kalman filter

Stock market prediction is of great interest to stock traders and investors due to high profit in trading the stocks. A successful stock buying/selling generally occurs near price trend turning point. Thus the prediction of stock market indices and its analysis are important to ascertain whether the next day's closing price would increase or decrease. This paper, therefore, presents a simple IIR filter based dynamic neural network (DNN) and an innovative optimized adaptive unscented Kalman filter for forecasting stock price indices of four different Indian stocks, namely the Bombay stock exchange (BSE), the IBM stock market, RIL stock market, and Oracle stock market. The weights of the dynamic neural information system are adjusted by four different learning strategies that include gradient calculation, unscented Kalman filter (UKF), differential evolution (DE), and a hybrid technique (DEUKF) by alternately executing the DE and UKF for a few generations. To improve the performance of both the UKF and DE algorithms, adaptation of certain parameters in both these algorithms has been presented in this paper. After predicting the stock price indices one day to one week ahead time horizon, the stock market trend has been analyzed using several important technical indicators like the moving average (MA), stochastic oscillators like K and D parameters, WMS%R (William indicator), etc. Extensive computer simulations are carried out with the four learning strategies for prediction of stock indices and the up or down trends of the indices. From the results it is observed that significant accuracy is achieved using the hybrid DEUKF algorithm in comparison to others that include only DE, UKF, and gradient descent technique in chronological order. Comparisons with some of the widely used neural networks (NNs) are also presented in the paper.     

基于模糊近似支持向量回归的股价预测研究

股价预测是投资策略形成和风险管理模型发展的基础。为了降低股价变化趋势中的噪声信息和投资者关于两种股价预测误差的不同偏好对股价预测的影响,提出了基于信噪比的模糊近似支持向量回归(FPSVR)的股价预测模型。首先构建信噪比输入变量,然后引入模糊隶属度和双边权重测量方法对支持向量回归(SVR)模型进行改进,最后借助沪深300成份股2008至2019年的股票时间序列日数据,按照股市的波动情况将其分为三个阶段(牛市、熊市、震荡市),并建立三个基准模型进行对比分析。研究结果表明:与三个基准模型相比,所提出的股价预测模型的预测误差最低;与原有的SVR模型相比,FPSVR模型可以更好地对处于牛市和震荡市阶段的股票时间序列进行股价预测。     

A Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model combined with a support vector regression for stock trading forecasting

The turning points prediction scheme for future time series analysis based on past and present information is widely employed in the field of financial applications. In this research, a novel approach to identify turning points of the trading signal using a fuzzy rule-based model is presented. The Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy rule-based model (the TS model) can accurately identify daily stock trading from sets of technical indicators according to the trading signals learned by a support vector regression (SVR) technique. In addition, when new trading points are created, the structure and parameters of the TS model are constantly inherited and updated. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed TS fuzzy rule-based modeling approach, we have acquired the stock trading data in the US stock market. The TS fuzzy approach with dynamic threshold control is compared with a conventional linear regression model and artificial neural networks. Our result indicates that the TS fuzzy model not only yields more profit than other approaches but also enables stable dynamic identification of the complexities of the stock forecasting system.     

A Bayesian regularized artificial neural network for stock market forecasting

In this paper a Bayesian regularized artificial neural network is proposed as a novel method to forecast financial market behavior. Daily market prices and financial technical indicators are utilized as inputs to predict the one day future closing price of individual stocks. The prediction of stock price movement is generally considered to be a challenging and important task for financial time series analysis. The accurate prediction of stock price movements could play an important role in helping investors improve stock returns. The complexity in predicting these trends lies in the inherent noise and volatility in daily stock price movement. The Bayesian regularized network assigns a probabilistic nature to the network weights, allowing the network to automatically and optimally penalize excessively complex models. The proposed technique reduces the potential for overfitting and overtraining, improving the prediction quality and generalization of the network. Experiments were performed with Microsoft Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. stock to determine the effectiveness of the model. The results indicate that the proposed model performs as well as the more advanced models without the need for preprocessing of data, seasonality testing, or cycle analysis.     

Generative adversarial network (GAN) and enhanced root mean square error (ERMSE): deep learning for stock price movement prediction

The prediction of stock price movement direction is significant in financial circles and academic. Stock price contains complex, incomplete, and fuzzy information which makes it an extremely difficult task to predict its development trend. Predicting and analysing financial data is a nonlinear, time-dependent problem. With rapid development in machine learning and deep learning, this task can be performed more effectively by a purposely designed network. This paper aims to improve prediction accuracy and minimizing forecasting error loss through deep learning architecture by using Generative Adversarial Networks. It was proposed a generic model consisting of Phase-space Reconstruction (PSR) method for reconstructing price series and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) which is a combination of two neural networks which are Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) as Generative model and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) as Discriminative model for adversarial training to forecast the stock market. LSTM will generate new instances based on historical basic indicators information and then CNN will estimate whether the data is predicted by LSTM or is real. It was found that the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has performed well on the enhanced root mean square error to LSTM, as it was 4.35% more accurate in predicting the direction and reduced processing time and RMSE by 78 s and 0.029, respectively. This study provides a better result in the accuracy of the stock index. It seems that the proposed system concentrates on minimizing the root mean square error and processing time and improving the direction prediction accuracy, and provides a better result in the accuracy of the stock index.

     

Indicator selection with committee decision of filter methods for stock market price trend in ISE

Prediction of the stock market price direction is a challenging and important task of the financial time series. This study presents the prediction of the next day stock price direction by the optimal subset indicators selected with ensemble feature selection approach. The main focus is to obtain the final best feature subset which also yields good prediction of the next day price trend by removing irrelevant and redundant indicators from the dataset. For this purpose, filter methods are combined, support vector machines (SVM) has been carried out and finally voting scheme is applied. In order to conduct these processes, a real dataset obtained from Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) is used with technical and macroeconomic indicators. The result of this study shows that the prediction of the next day direction with reduced dataset has an improvement over the prediction of it with full dataset.     

Stock linkage prediction based on optimized LSTM model

Stock linkage refers to the correlation or similar performance of two or more stocks in the stock market. The quantification of stock linkage relationship is the trend and difficulty of research in recent years. The study of stock linkage can dig out the potential relationship between stocks at a deeper level. At present, the existing research often only studies the linkage phenomenon from the perspective of the correlation or similarity of stock movement, and there is no unified and standard numerical index to effectively describe the degree of linkage phenomenon, which greatly hinders the progress of research. Aiming at the problem that it is difficult to quantify the phenomenon of stock linkage, we analyze the correlation and morphological similarity of time series, and propose the combination of correlation coefficient and time weighted distance as the numerical expression of stock linkage for the first time, so as to realize the quantification of stock linkage. In addition, the parallel network structure of LSTM model is designed, and the automatic noise reduction encoder and wavelet transform module are added as the noise reduction processing layer, which effectively improves the prediction performance of LSTM model for stock market linkage numerical time series. Three different types of comparative experiments based on 2.309 million stock market sequences show that the proposed optimized LSTM model has more accurate prediction effect, and its RMSE error is 18.68% lower than the compared DB-LSTM model and 46.38% lower than SDAE-LSTM model.

     

A two-stage architecture for stock price forecasting by integrating self-organizing map and support vector regression

Stock price prediction has attracted much attention from both practitioners and researchers. However, most studies in this area ignored the non-stationary nature of stock price series. That is, stock price series do not exhibit identical statistical properties at each point of time. As a result, the relationships between stock price series and their predictors are quite dynamic. It is challenging for any single artificial technique to effectively address this problematic characteristics in stock price series. One potential solution is to hybridize different artificial techniques. Towards this end, this study employs a two-stage architecture for better stock price prediction. Specifically, the self-organizing map (SOM) is first used to decompose the whole input space into regions where data points with similar statistical distributions are grouped together, so as to contain and capture the non-stationary property of financial series. After decomposing heterogeneous data points into several homogenous regions, support vector regression (SVR) is applied to forecast financial indices. The proposed technique is empirically tested using stock price series from seven major financial markets. The results show that the performance of stock price prediction can be significantly enhanced by using the two-stage architecture in comparison with a single SVR model.     

基于ATLG混合模型的股票价格预测

股市是金融市场的重要组成部分,对股票价格预测有着重要的意义.同时,深度学习具有强大的数据处理能力,可以解决金融时间序列的复杂性所带来的问题.对此,本文提出一种结合自注意力机制的混合神经网络模型(ATLG).该模型由长短期记忆网络(LSTM)、门控递归单元(GRU)、自注意力机制构建而成,用于对股票价格的预测.实验结果表明:(1)与LSTM、GRU、RNN-LSTM、RNN-GRU等模型相比, ATLG模型的准确率更高;(2)引入自注意力机制使模型更能聚焦于重要时间点的股票特征信息;(3)通过对比,双层神经网络起到的效果更为明显.(4)通过MACD (moving average convergence and divergence)指标进行回测检验,获得了53%的收益,高于同期沪深300的收益.结果证明了该模型在股票价格预测中的有效性和实用性.     

Using a Stochastic Complexity Measure to Check the Efficient Market Hypothesis

The weak form of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) states that current market price reflects fully the information from past prices and rules out prediction based on price data alone. No recent test of time series of stock returns rejects this weak-form hypothesis. This research offers another test of the weak form of the EHM that leads to different conclusions for some time series.The stochastic complexity of a time series is a measure of the number of bits needed to represent and reproduce the information in the time series. In an efficient market, compression of the time series is not possible, because there are no patterns and the stochastic complexity is high. In this research, Rissanen's context tree algorithm is used to identify recurring patterns in the data, and use them for compression. The weak form of the EMH is tested for 13 international stock indices and for all the stocks that comprise the Tel-Aviv 25 index (TA25), using sliding windows of 50, 75, and 100 consecutive daily returns. Statistically significant compression is detected in ten of the international stock index series. In the aggregate, 60% to 84% of the TA25 stocks tested demonstrate compressibility beyond randomness. This indicates potential market inefficiency.     

Integrating piecewise linear representation and weighted support vector machine for stock trading signal prediction

Piecewise linear representation (PLR) and back-propagation artificial neural network (BPN) have been integrated for the stock trading signal prediction recently (PLR–BPN). However, there are some disadvantages in avoiding over-fitting, trapping in local minimum and choosing the threshold of the trading decision. Since support vector machine (SVM) has a good way to avoid over-fitting and trapping in local minimum, we integrate PLR and weighted SVM (WSVM) to forecast the stock trading signals (PLR–WSVM). The new characteristics of PLR–WSVM are as follows: (1) the turning points obtained from PLR are set by different weights according to the change rate of the closing price between the current turning point and the next one, in which the weight reflects the relative importance of each turning point; (2) the prediction of stock trading signal is formulated as a weighted four-class classification problem, in which it does not need to determine the threshold of trading decision; (3) WSVM is used to model the relationship between the trading signal and the input variables, which improves the generalization performance of prediction model; (4) the history dataset is divided into some overlapping training–testing sets rather than training–validation–testing, which not only makes use of data fully but also reduces the time variability of data; and (5) some new technical indicators representing investors’ sentiment are added to the input variables, which improves the prediction performance. The comparative experiments among PLR–WSVM, PLR–BPN and buy-and-hold strategy (BHS) on 20 shares from Shanghai Stock Exchange in China show that the prediction accuracy and profitability of PLR–WSVM are all the best, which indicates PLR–WSVM is effective and can be used in the stock trading signal prediction.     

AN ADAPTIVE EXPECTATION GENETIC ALGORITHM BASED ON ANFIS AND MULTINATIONAL STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY CAUSALITY FOR TAIEX FORECASTING

The stock market is a highly complex and dynamic system, and forecasting stock is complicated and difficult. Successful prediction of stock prices may promise attractive benefits; therefore, stock market forecasting is important and of great interest. The economy of Taiwan relies on international trade deeply and the fluctuations of international stock markets impact Taiwan's stock market to certain degree. It is practical to use the fluctuations of other stock markets as forecasting factors for forecasting on the Taiwan stock market. Further, stock market investors usually make short-term decisions based on recent price fluctuations, but most time series models use only the last period of stock price in forecasting. In this article, the proposed model uses the fluctuations of other national stock markets as forecasting factors and employs an expectation equation method whose parameters are optimized by a genetic algorithm (GA) joined with an adaptive network–based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) model to forecast the Taiwan stock index. To evaluate the forecasting performance, the proposed model is compared with Chen's model and Yu's model. The experimental results indicate that the proposed model is superior to the listing methods (Chen's model and Yu's model) in terms of root mean squared error (RMSE).     

Combining nonlinear independent component analysis and neural network for the prediction of Asian stock market indexes

With the economic successes of several Asian economies and their increasingly important roles in the global financial market, the prediction of Asian stock markets has becoming a hot research area. As Asian stock markets are highly dynamic and exhibit wide variation, it may more realistic and practical that assumed the stock indexes of Asian stock markets are nonlinear mixture data. In this research, a time series prediction model by combining nonlinear independent component analysis (NLICA) and neural network is proposed to forecast Asian stock markets. NLICA is a novel feature extraction technique to find independent sources from observed nonlinear mixture data where no relevant data mixing mechanisms are available. In the proposed method, we first use NLICA to transform the input space composed of original time series data into the feature space consisting of independent components representing underlying information of the original data. Then, the ICs are served as the input variables of the neural network to build prediction model. Among the Asian stock markets, Japanese and China’s stock markets are the biggest two in Asia and they respectively represent the two types of stock markets. Therefore, in order to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach, the Nikkei 225 closing index and Shanghai B-share closing index are used as illustrative examples. Experimental results show that the proposed forecasting model not only improves the prediction accuracy of the neural network approach but also outperforms the three comparison methods. The proposed stock index prediction model can be therefore a good alternative for Asian stock market indexes.     

基于混沌理论进行股票市场的多步预测

提出一种基于混沌理论进行股票价格多步预测 的方法．只需要考虑系统是否混沌,然后依据混沌理论给出了进行股票价格多步预测明确的 最大时间尺度．对于其它复杂非线性系统的多步预测同样具有指导意义．     

CAR-BPNN在股票价格预测中的应用

研究股票价格准确预测问题,股票价格变化具有非线性、时变性,且含有噪声,单一或传统线性预测模型不能全面反映其变化规律,预测精度低,误差大。为了提高股票价格预测精度,提出一种组合的股票价格预测模型(CAR-BPNN)。首先采用主成分分析对股票价格数据进行预处理,消除噪声,然后采用CAR对线部分进行预测,BPNN对非线性部分进行预测。采用熵值法确定CAR和BPNN对预测结果进行组合,获得股票价格的最终预测结果。通过股票价格实际数据对CAR-BPNN进行测试,测试结果表明,CAR-BPNN充分利用两种模型的优点,比单一模型的预测精度更高,可以为股票价格精确预测提供依据。     

股市价格趋势预测研究

针对ANFIS（Adaptive-Network-based Fuzzy Inference System)直接对价格序列进行预测偏差较大的问题。提出了在处理有趋势特征价格数据中，用数字滤波器获取价格趋势和围绕趋势波动的变化细节特征，对两者分别采用AR和ANFIS模型进行预测。此方法应用于股票价格序列预测中，收到较好效果。