
The reason of this issue is related to efficient market
hypothesis (EMH) [28] which states that the
efficiency of a market affects the predictability of its
asset. In other words, the more advanced markets in
which more traders participate and therefore more
transactions are recorded, the patterns created in the
stock price chart are more reliable and the stock
trend and movements become more predictable.
6 Conclusion
Stock price prediction is considered to be difficult
since stock data is a random walk time series which
contains high level of noise. Hence, employing a
noise reduction technique to process the underlying
noise in stock data is inevitable. However, not all
denoising techniques are beneficial for all stock
markets. In other words, if we use an inappropriate
technique to preprocess and denoise the data it will
destroy the integrity and authenticity of the data
which leads to miss some usefulness of the price
information. Therefore, choosing the right denoising
technique is an important task that should be
considered with caution.
In order to achieve a more superior prediction
results for the LSTM neural network, In this project,
authors used two different algorithms of noise
elimination which were Wavelet transform and
Kalman filter. These algorithms have been used in
order to investigate the effect of noise elimination
from noisy financial time series on enhancing the
LSTM model performance in comparison with
Wavelet transform. With a glimpse on results, it is
obviously clear that using a noise elimination
technique such as Kalman filter or Wavelet
transform can enhance the results of predicting
financial markets and employing a noise elimination
technique is absolutely necessary for anyone who is
trying to predict the financial markets.
It can be concluded from the results that since
Kalman Filter marginally outperforms Wavelet
transform in denoising developing and relatively
developed stock indexes, it is going to be a better
choice for denoising systems that are less mature and
have higher volatility. On the other hand, Wavelet
Transform presents a better performance than
Kalman filter in developed stock indexes which
implies that it is more powerful in processing noise
data and could be beneficial in denoising more
advanced markets. These findings imply that, to
better preserve the original information, processing
noisy time series should be done with careful
consideration of the stock market’s level of maturity.
Employing a noise eliminator algorithm such as
Wavelet Transform or Kalman Filter is an effective
factor to enhance the performance of a LSTM model,
which allows the neural network to better identify
the available patterns in the price chart and make
more precise predictions. According to the results of
this project, deep learning approaches are capable of
identifying and extracting hidden patterns in the
financial time series and can accurately predict the
future behavior of such markets.
One of the most demanding and time-consuming
tasks in training deep learning models is to find an
optimal value for hyperparameters which are
commonly set with try and error such as number of
LSTM units, regularization parameters, dropout
percentage and so on. Future works could be the
study of these hyperparameters and proposing
methods which are capable of effectively finding the
optimal values and enhance the performance of
these networks. Also, the change in structure and the
number of layers of LSTM neural networks can be
studied to improve its performance by using
professional noise elimination algorithms to
eliminate noise from input data. Furthermore,
profitability can be modeled by incorporating
trading commissions into input variables.
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