Maximum and minimum stock price forecasting of Brazilian power distribution companies based on artificial neural networks

Time series forecasting has been widely used to determine future prices of stocks, and the analysis and modeling of finance time series is an important task for guiding investors’ decisions and trades. Nonetheless, the prediction of prices by means of a time series is not trivial and it requires a thorough analysis of indexes, variables and other data. In addition, in a dynamic environment such as the stock market, the non-linearity of the time series is a pronounced characteristic, and this immediately affects the efficacy of stock price forecasts. Thus, this paper aims at proposing a methodology that forecasts the maximum and minimum day stock prices of three Brazilian power distribution companies, which are traded in the São Paulo Stock Exchange BM&FBovespa. When compared to the other papers already published in the literature, one of the main contributions and novelty of this paper is the forecast of the range of closing prices of Brazilian power distribution companies’ stocks. As a result of its application, investors may be able to define threshold values for their stock trades. Moreover, such a methodology may be of great interest to home brokers who do not possess ample knowledge to invest in such companies. The proposed methodology is based on the calculation of distinct features to be analysed by means of attribute selection, defining the most relevant attributes to predict the maximum and minimum day stock prices of each company. Then, the actual prediction was carried out by Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), which had their performances evaluated by means of Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) calculations. The proposed methodology for addressing the problem of prediction of maximum and minimum day stock prices for Brazilian distribution companies is effective. In addition, these results were only possible to be achieved due to the combined use of attribute selection by correlation analysis and ANNs.     

Applying Artificial Neural Networks to prediction of stock price and improvement of the directional prediction index – Case study of PETR4, Petrobras,Brazil

Predicting the direction of stock price changes is an important factor, as it contributes to the development of effective strategies for stock exchange transactions and attracts much interest in incorporating variables historical series into the mathematical models or computer algorithms in order to produce estimations of expected price fluctuations. The purpose of this study is to build a neural model for the financial market, allowing predictions of stocks closing prices future behavior negotiated in BM&FBOVESPA in the short term, using the economic and financial theory, combining technical analysis, fundamental analysis and analysis of time series, to predict price behavior, addressing the percentage of correct predictions of price series direction (POCID or Prediction of Change in Direction). The aim of this work is to understand the information available in the financial market and identify the variables that drive stock prices. The methodology presented may be adapted to other companies and their stock. Petrobras stock PETR4, traded in BM&FBOVESPA, was used as a case study. As part of this effort, configurations with different window sizes were designed, and the best performance was achieved with a window size of 3, which the POCID index of correct direction predictions was 93.62% for the test set and 87.50% for a validation set.     

Gold Price, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm

Economic theory has failed to provide sufficient explanation of the dynamicpath of price movement over time. Therefore, the use of any linear ornon-linear functional form to model the gold price movement is bound to bearbitrary in nature. Neural Networks equipped with genetic algorithm have theadvantage of simulating the non-linear models when little a priori knowledgeof the structure of problem domains exist. Studies suggest that such a systemprovides better predictions when compared with traditional econometric models.The NeuroGenetic Optimizer software is applied to the NYMEX database of dailygold cash price covering 12/31/1974–12/31/1998 period. Among differentmethods, back-propagation neural networks with genetic algorithms is used topredict gold price movement. The results indicate that prices in the past, upto 36 days, strongly affect the gold prices of the future. This confirms thefact that there is short-term time dependence in gold price movements.     

A hybrid procedure for stock price prediction by integrating self-organizing map and genetic programming

Stock price prediction is a very important financial topic, and is considered a challenging task and worthy of the considerable attention received from both researchers and practitioners. Stock price series have properties of high volatility, complexity, dynamics and turbulence, thus the implicit relationship between the stock price and predictors is quite dynamic. Hence, it is difficult to tackle the stock price prediction problems effectively by using only single soft computing technique. This study hybridizes a self-organizing map (SOM) neural network and genetic programming (GP) to develop an integrated procedure, namely, the SOM-GP procedure, in order to resolve problems inherent in stock price predictions. The SOM neural network is utilized to divide the sample data into several clusters, in such a manner that the objects within each cluster possess similar properties to each other, but differ from the objects in other clusters. The GP technique is applied to construct a mathematical prediction model that describes the functional relationship between technical indicators and the closing price of each cluster formed in the SOM neural network. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed hybrid SOM-GP prediction procedure are demonstrated through experiments aimed at predicting the finance and insurance sub-index of TAIEX (Taiwan stock exchange capitalization weighted stock index). Experimental results show that the proposed SOM-GP prediction procedure can be considered a feasible and effective tool for stock price predictions, as based on the overall prediction performance indices. Furthermore, it is found that the frequent and alternating rise and fall, as well as the range of daily closing prices during the period, significantly increase the difficulties of predicting.     

Forecasting stock market movement direction with support vector machine

Support vector machine (SVM) is a very specific type of learning algorithms characterized by the capacity control of the decision function, the use of the kernel functions and the sparsity of the solution. In this paper, we investigate the predictability of financial movement direction with SVM by forecasting the weekly movement direction of NIKKEI 225 index. To evaluate the forecasting ability of SVM, we compare its performance with those of Linear Discriminant Analysis, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis and Elman Backpropagation Neural Networks. The experiment results show that SVM outperforms the other classification methods. Further, we propose a combining model by integrating SVM with the other classification methods. The combining model performs best among all the forecasting methods.     

Systematic analysis and review of stock market prediction techniques

Prediction of stock market trends is considered as an important task and is of great attention as predicting stock prices successfully may lead to attractive profits by making proper decisions. Stock market prediction is a major challenge owing to non-stationary, blaring, and chaotic data, and thus, the prediction becomes challenging among the investors to invest the money for making profits. Several techniques are devised in the existing techniques to predict the stock market trends. This work presents the detailed review of 50 research papers suggesting the methodologies, like Bayesian model, Fuzzy classifier, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier, Neural Network (NN), Machine Learning Methods and so on, based on stock market prediction. The obtained papers are classified based on different prediction and clustering techniques. The research gaps and the challenges faced by the existing techniques are listed and elaborated, which help the researchers to upgrade the future works. The works are analyzed using certain datasets, software tools, performance evaluation measures, prediction techniques utilized, and performance attained by different techniques. The commonly used technique for attaining effective stock market prediction is ANN and the fuzzy-based technique. Even though a lot of research efforts, the current stock market prediction technique still have many limits. From this survey, it can be concluded that the stock market prediction is a very complex task, and different factors should be considered for predicting the future of the market more accurately and efficiently.     

SVM和ANN在网络安全风险评估中的比较研究

支持向量机和人工神经网络是人工智能方法的两个分支,详细介绍了支持向量机和人工神经网络原理。建立了网络安全评估指标体系,将支持向量机和人工神经网络同时应用于网络安全风险评估的过程中,通过实例比较了两者的评估效果,结果表明了支持向量机在小样本情况下分类正确率普遍高于人工神经网络,具有较好的分类能力和泛化能力;同时在训练时间上也有绝对的优势。实践证实了支持向量机用于网络安全风险评估的有效性和优越性。     

Predicting direction of stock price index movement using artificial neural networks and support vector machines: The sample of the Istanbul Stock Exchange

Prediction of stock price index movement is regarded as a challenging task of financial time series prediction. An accurate prediction of stock price movement may yield profits for investors. Due to the complexity of stock market data, development of efficient models for predicting is very difficult. This study attempted to develop two efficient models and compared their performances in predicting the direction of movement in the daily Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) National 100 Index. The models are based on two classification techniques, artificial neural networks (ANN) and support vector machines (SVM). Ten technical indicators were selected as inputs of the proposed models. Two comprehensive parameter setting experiments for both models were performed to improve their prediction performances. Experimental results showed that average performance of ANN model (75.74%) was found significantly better than that of SVM model (71.52%).     

A hybrid intelligent model based on recurrent neural networks and excitable dynamics for price prediction in deregulated electricity market

This paper examines electricity price time series from dynamical system perspective and proposes a hybrid model which employs a synergistic combination of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and coupled excitable system for prediction of future prices in deregulated electricity markets. Driven by profit maximizing decisions taken by various agents, these markets belong to the class of financial systems. However presence of intermittent spikes and complex dynamic nonlinearities in electricity price time series render the prediction task extremely challenging. The approximation ability of Recurrent Neural Networks to map dynamic functions together with sharp jumping attribute of coupled excitable systems allows close approximation of spiky time series. The developed hybrid model was applied for point and interval forecasting in various markets worldwide over different seasons for testing its adaptability in different environments. Satisfactory prediction results were obtained in all the markets, in stable as well as spiking regions of the time series.     

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.

     

Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Network for Predicting Heart Failure Risk

Heart failure is now widely spread throughout the world. Heart disease affects approximately 48% of the population. It is too expensive and also difficult to cure the disease. This research paper represents machine learning models to predict heart failure. The fundamental concept is to compare the correctness of various Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and boost algorithms to improve models’ accuracy for prediction. Some supervised algorithms like K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), Random Forest (RF), Logistic Regression (LR) are considered to achieve the best results. Some boosting algorithms like Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and CatBoost are also used to improve the prediction using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). This research also focuses on data visualization to identify patterns, trends, and outliers in a massive data set. Python and Scikit-learns are used for ML. Tensor Flow and Keras, along with Python, are used for ANN model training. The DT and RF algorithms achieved the highest accuracy of 95% among the classifiers. Meanwhile, KNN obtained a second height accuracy of 93.33%. XGBoost had a gratified accuracy of 91.67%, SVM, CATBoost, and ANN had an accuracy of 90%, and LR had 88.33% accuracy.     

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.     

Hybrid of simulated annealing and SVM for hydraulic valve characteristics prediction

Accurate prediction for the synthesis characteristics of hydraulic valve in industrial production plays an important role in decreasing the repair rate and the reject rate of the product. Recently, Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a highly effective mean of system modeling has been widely used for predicting. However, the important problem is how to choose the reasonable input parameters for SVM. In this paper, a hybrid prediction method (SA–SVM for short) is proposed by using simulated annealing (SA) and SVM to predict synthesis characteristics of the hydraulic valve, where SA is used to optimize the input parameters of SVM based prediction model. To validate the proposed prediction method, a specific hydraulic valve production is selected as a case study. The prediction results show that the proposed prediction method is applicable to forecast the synthesis characteristics of hydraulic valve and with higher accuracy. Comparing with Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are also made.     

Volatility forecast using hybrid Neural Network models

In this research the testing of a hybrid Neural Networks-GARCH model for volatility forecast is performed in three Latin-American stock exchange indexes from Brazil, Chile and Mexico. A detail of the methodology and application of the volatility forecast of financial series using a hybrid artificial Neural Network model are presented.The results demonstrate that the ANN models can improve the forecasting performance of the GARCH models when studied in the three Latin-American markets and it is shown that the results are robust and consistent for different ANN specifications and different volatility measures.     

基于KNN-ANN算法的边际电价预测

在电力市场中,价格一直受到买卖双方的广泛关注。但是,电价影响因素的不确定性给电价的预测带来难度。针对该问题,提出一种通过结合人工神经网络和KNN算法来进行时间序列预测的模型,用KNN算法找出历史数据中相似的数据子序列集合(最近邻),并用人工神经网络来寻找这些最近邻的最优权重,得出预测的时间序列。以美国纽约州电力市场的电价数据进行实验分析,同时比较了利用ARIMA算法以及Naive I预测的结果,证明该方法简单、有效。     

基于混合贝叶斯SVM的电价分类与预测

电价的分类与预测是电力市场电价理论研究中的重要内容。该文提出了混合贝叶斯支持向量机方法(BE-SVM),通过贝叶斯统计方法对电价进行分类,挖掘有效的数据信息,并结合支持向量机(SVM)技术预测现货电价数据,贝叶斯前验分布和后验分布用来估计SVM中的参数。通过比较模型BE-SVM、SVM 和神经网络(ANN)的预测结果,表明该文提出的BE-SVM方法提高了电价的预测精度,是一种有效的方法。     

基于时间序列的支持向量机在股票预测中的应用

由于股票预测是不确定、非线性、非平稳的时间序列问题,传统的方法往往难以取得满意的预测效果。本文提出一种基于时间序列的支持向量机（SVM）股票预测方法。利用沙河股份的股票数据,建立股票收盘价回归预测模型,该模型克服了传统时间序列预测模型仅局限于线性系统的情况。实验结果表明,该方法比神经网络方法以及时间序列方法的预测精度更高,可以很好的应用某些非线性时间序列的预测中。     

基于改进回声状态神经网络的个股股价预测

当今社会股价预测是研究的热门问题,人们越来越关注对股价预测模型的建立,提高股价预测的精度对股票投资者有实际的应用价值.目前股价的预测方法层出不穷,其中较为典型的有传统的技术分析和ARMA模型等.为了提升预测的精度,同时考虑到股市的非线性,本文提出一种改进的回声状态神经网络的个股股价预测模型,针对回声状态神经网络(ESN)泛化能力不强的特点,应用改进的粒子群算法(GTPSO)对回声状态神经网络(ESN)的输出连接权进行搜索,最终得到最优解,即ESN的最优输出连接权,GTPSO算法概括来说就是在传统粒子群算法(PSO)的基础上引入禁忌搜索算法(TS)中禁忌的思想和遗传算法(GA)中变异的思想,从而降低PSO在学习过程中陷入局部最小值的状况,同时提高PSO搜寻全局的能力.将预测模型用于个股每日收盘价预测中,使用每10天的收盘价预测第11天的收盘价.通过实验验证了模型的正确性,实验证实,该模型拥有较好的预测效果.     

基于TN-LP-LSTM-SVM混合模型的原油期货次日价格变化方向和波动率大小预测

原油价格受国际政治、经济、军事、外交以及其他复杂因素的影响,这些因素的频繁变化使油价表现出随机波动,给原油投资及交易决策带来困难,准确预测油价已成为能源领域学术界的研究热点.但是,现有关于原油价格预测的文献大多数是预测原油价格的数值而不是变化方向,而且不是同时预测原油价格和波动率,因此无法给投资者充分的决策指导信息.为了填补这一研究空白,提出一种结合转移网络(TN)、链接预测(LP)、长短期记忆模型(LSTM)和支持向量机(SVM)的新的混合模型TN-LP-LSTM-SVM来更精确地预测WTI期货次日价格变化方向和波动率大小,为投资者、能源相关企业和参与政策决策的政府人员提供有益的建议.在不同的时间窗口下($h\in [1,50]$且$h\in {\bm Z     

A comparative study of artificial neural networks,and decision trees for digital game content stocks price prediction

Precise prediction of stock prices is difficult chiefly because of the many intervening factors. Unpredictability is particularly notable in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Data mining may however be used to discover highly correlated estimation models. This study looks at artificial neural networks (ANN), decision trees and the hybrid model of ANN and decision trees (hybrid model), the three common algorithm methods used for numerical analysis, to forecast stock prices. The author compared the stock price forecasting models derived from the three methods, and applied the models on 10 different stocks in 320 data sets in an empirical forecast. Average accuracy of ANN is 15.31%, the highest, in terms of match with real market stock prices, followed by decision trees, at 14.06%; hybrid model is 13.75%. The study also discovers that compared to the other two methods, ANN is a more stable method for predicting stock prices in the volatile post-crisis stock market.