Financial Time Series Forecasting Based on Long-Short Term Memory, Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise and Batch Normalization.

Abstract

Long-short term memory (LSTM) is a state-of-art and widely used model to forecast financial time series. However, primitive LSTM networks do not perform well due to over-fitting problems of the deep learning model and nonlinear and non-stationary characteristics of financial time series data. In addition, complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN) is an outstanding data frequency decomposition technique that can decompose original time series into several intrinsic mode functions and a residue. Thus, this paper proposed a novel hybrid network CEEMDAN-LSTM-BN based on LSTM. Specifically, to avoid over-fitting, the modified LSTM-BN network consists of two LSTM layers, two Batch Normalization (BN) layers following each LSTM layer, and a dropout layer. Each of the intrinsic mode functions and the residue would be processed by CEEMDAN-LSTM-BN and the final prediction results are obtained by reconstructing each predictive series. The advantages of the proposed CEEMDANLSTM-BN networks are verified by comparing them to primitive LSTM, other hybrid models, and some famous machine learning models. Moreover, the robustness of the networks is assessed by numerical experiments on different stock indices datasets.