An Optimized Machine Learning Model for Stock Trend Anticipation

Abstract

Security market is an economical-volatile in nature as it is driven by not only based on historical prices various unpredictable external factors like financial news, changes in socio-political issues and natural calamities happened in real world; hence its forecasting is a challenging task for traders. To gain profits and to overcome any crisis in financial market, it is essential to have a very accurate calculation of future trends by for the investors. The trend prediction results can be used as recommendations for investors as to whether they should buy or sell. Feature selection, dimensionality reduction and optimization techniques can be integrated with emerging advanced machine learning models, to get improvised prediction in terms of quality, performance, security and for effective assessment external factors role in stock market nonlinear signals. In this empirical research work, a set of hybrid models were built and their predictive abilities were compared to find consistent model. This work implies the base model, boosted model and deep learning model along with optimization techniques. From the experimental result, the optimized deep learning model, ABC-LSTM was turned out superior to all other considered financial models LSSVM, Gradient Boost, LSTM, ABC-LSSVM, ABC-Gradient Boost by showing best Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) value, which was low.