Accurately Forecasting Stock Prices using LSTM and GRU Neural Networks

Stocks or shares are securities that confirm the participation or ownership of a person or entity in a company. Stocks are an attractive investment option because they can generate large profits compared to other businesses however the risk can also result in large losses in a short time. Thus minimizing the risk of loss in stock buying and selling transactions is very crucial and important and it requires careful attention to stock price movements. Technical factors are one of the methods that are used in learning the prediction of stock price movements through past historical data patterns on the stock market. Therefore forecasting models using technical factors must be careful thorough and accurate to reduce risk appropriately. This book presents the LSTM and GRU Neural Networks to build stock price forecasting models in groups using technical factors. The investigation uses seven years of benchmark time-series data on daily stock price movements with the same features as several previous related works to show differences in results. Time-series data on stock prices are grouped to follow the general pattern of stock price movements in the stock exchange market.