Open AccessGated Recurrent Unit Networks and Discrete Wavelet Transforms Applied to Forecasting and Trading in the Stock Market
Author(s) -
Victor Vinícius Biazon,
Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5753/eniac.2020.12167
Subject(s) - stock market , computer science , preprocessor , stock (firearms) , wavelet , discrete wavelet transform , econometrics , recurrent neural network , wavelet transform , time series , artificial neural network , artificial intelligence , economics , machine learning , engineering , mechanical engineering , paleontology , horse , biology
Trading in the stock market always comes with the challenge of deciding the best action to take on each time step. The problem is intensified by the theory that it is not possible to predict stock market time series as all information related to the stock price is already contained in it. In this work we propose a novel model called Discrete Wavelet Transform Gated Recurrent Unit Network (DWT-GRU). The model learns from the data to choose between buying, holding and selling, and when to execute them. The proposed model was compared to other recurrent neural networks, with and without wavelets preprocessing, and the buy and hold strategy. The results shown that the DWT-GRU outperformed all the set baselines in the analysed stocks of the Brazilian stock market.