Forecasting Stock Market Prices with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Networks
摘要
Stock market prediction is an intricate process in financial analysis, as its main aim is to predict the price trends and thus help to make trading strategies. But the stock market is so unpredictable with various factors affecting it, and thus predicting whether the value will rise or not becomes a difficult task. This study aims to predict the stock market prices with historical data that will be achieved via Deep Learning techniques in particular LSTM networks. Due to its strength in learning long-term dependencies and preserving the sequence information, LSTM (one of the variants of RNNs) is ideal for time-series data. Our approach leverages a dataset of daily stock prices from various financial indices over multiple years. The data is preprocessed using normalization techniques to improve model accuracy. The LSTM model is then compared to a traditional feed-forward neural network to demonstrate the superiority of LSTM in predicting shortterm stock trends. The models are optimized using the Adam optimizer, The results indicate that LSTM significantly outperforms the conventional models in forecasting accuracy. Moreover, this research introduced a hybrid LSTM-CNN method to extract features and prediction firmly. This study will contribute to financial forecasting by utilizing deep learning techniques and real trading scenarios. The research work was carried out using the programming language known as Python, deep learning tools such as TensorFlow and Keras, data management libraries such as Pandas and NumPy, and data representation software such as Matplotlib. It was found that the LSTM model has a much higher level of success when time series patterns are approximate than any other type of neural network, hence stock price predictions are more accurate. This study helps in how LSTM networks can be useful for forecasting in finance hence would be helpful to traders and market analysts.