Improved big data stock index prediction using deep learning with CNN and GRU

Abstract

Stock index prediction has been a challenging problem due to difficult to model complexities of the stock market. More recently deep learning approaches have become an important method in modelling complex relationships in time-series data. In this paper: we propose novel deep learning models that combine multiple pipelines of convolutional neural network and uni-directional or bi-directional gated recurrent units. Proposed models improve prediction performance and execution time upon previously published models on large scale S&P 500 dataset. We present several variations of multiple and single pipeline deep learning models based on different CNN kernel sizes and number of GRU units.