Short-Term Stock Price Prediction Based on CAE-LSTM Method

Artificial intelligence methods are important tools for mining information for forecasting in the stock market. Most of the literature related to short-term stock price prediction focuses on the technical data, but in the real market, many individual investors make investment decisions more from stock price shape characteristics rather than specific stock price values. Compared with traditional measurement methods, deep neural networks perform better in processing high-dimensional complex data such as images. This paper proposes a model that combines CAE (convolutional autoencoder) and LSTM (long short-term memory) neural network, uses CAE to extract stock price image feature data, and combines technical data to predict short-term stock prices. The results show that the CAE-LSTM model, based on stock price image morphological feature data and technical data, performs well in short-term stock price prediction and has good generalization ability. The root mean square error of the CAE-LSTM model decreased by about 4% from that of LSTM. CAE-LSTM models have better predictive power than LSTM models that only use technical indicator data as valid inputs.