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Financial Forecasting With α-RNNs: A Time Series Modeling Approach
Document Type
article
Source
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Vol 6 (2021)
Subject
recurrent neural networks
exponential smoothing
bitcoin
time series modeling
high frequency trading
Applied mathematics. Quantitative methods
T57-57.97
Probabilities. Mathematical statistics
QA273-280
Language
English
ISSN
2297-4687
Abstract
The era of modern financial data modeling seeks machine learning techniques which are suitable for noisy and non-stationary big data. We demonstrate how a general class of exponential smoothed recurrent neural networks (α-RNNs) are well suited to modeling dynamical systems arising in big data applications such as high frequency and algorithmic trading. Application of exponentially smoothed RNNs to minute level Bitcoin prices and CME futures tick data, highlight the efficacy of exponential smoothing for multi-step time series forecasting. Our α-RNNs are also compared with more complex, “black-box”, architectures such as GRUs and LSTMs and shown to provide comparable performance, but with far fewer model parameters and network complexity.