Title
Deep Networks For Predicting Direction Of Change In Foreign Exchange Rates
Abstract
Trillions of dollars are traded daily on the foreign exchange (forex) market, making it the largest financial market in the world. Accurate forecasting of forex rates is a necessary element in any effective hedging or speculation strategy in the forex market. Time series models and shallow neural networks provide acceptable point estimates for future rates but are poor at predicting the direction of change and, hence, are not very useful for supporting profitable trading strategies. Machine learning classifiers trained on input features crafted based on domain knowledge produce marginally better results. The recent success of deep networks is partially attributable to their ability to learn abstract features from raw data. This motivates us to investigate the ability of deep convolution neural networks to predict the direction of change in forex rates. Exchange rates for the currency pairs EUR/USD, GBP/USD and JPY/USD are used in experiments. Results demonstrate that trained deep networks achieve satisfactory out-of-sample prediction accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1002/isaf.1404
INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS IN ACCOUNTING FINANCE & MANAGEMENT
Keywords
Field
DocType
deep network, feature engineering, financial prediction, foreign exchange
Speculation,Econometrics,Trading strategy,Foreign exchange market,Computer science,Raw data,Artificial intelligence,Hedge (finance),Artificial neural network,Financial market,Machine learning,Currency
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
4
1055-615X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.48
12
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Svitlana Galeshchuk160.48
Sumitra Mukherjee231131.75