Analysis & Stock Price Prediction and Forecasting Using Different LSTM Models

The objective of this research is to develop a Deep Learning model to forecast the stock price, by using the variant of Long Short-Term Memory. This model predicts the close price of the stock for the future selected date, choosing as inputs the following data: open, high, low, adj close and close prices. This model shows a comparative analysis between three different LSTM networks: Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Stacked Long Short-Term Memory (Stacked LSTM), and Stacked Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (Stacked Bidirectional LSTM) concluding which one is the best and implementing the model using that variant. We have used the historical stock prices data from yahoo’s financial website over 5 years, by choosing multiple datasets: Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Tesla (daily values). In order to get effective in the forecasting model, we have tested the network with different iterations and epochs. The model represents Multiple Graphs for data visualization in different comparisons. We have estimated the effectiveness of our proposed model by using the following performance indicators: the Mean Square Error (MSE), the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and the R-Squared of the model. The experimental results clearly show that our Stacked Bi-LSTM model has the highest accuracy values when comparing with the LSTM and Stacked LSTM Models. Hence, we can conclude that our Stacked Bi-LSTM Model is suitable for accurate prediction of the stock market time series. Key Words: stock price prediction, Machine Learning, stacked LSTM, Bi-directional LSTM, Deep Learning, Data pre-processing techniques, Data normalization, Data Visualization, Training and Testing Set, Financial Time Series, Future prediction