Title
Mixture of Activation Functions With Extended Min-Max Normalization for Forex Market Prediction
Abstract
An accurate exchange rate forecasting and its decision-making to buy or sell are critical issues in the Forex market. Short-term currency rate forecasting is a challenging task due to its inherent characteristics, which include high volatility, trend, noise, and market shocks. We propose a novel deep learning architecture consisting of an adaptive activation function selection mechanism to achieve higher predictive accuracy. The proposed architecture is composed of seven neural networks that have different activation functions as well as softmax layer and multiplication layer with a skip connection, which are used to generate the dynamic importance weights that decide which activation function is preferred. In addition, we introduce an extended Min-Max smoothing technique to further normalize financial time series that have non-stationary properties. In our experimental evaluation, the results showed that our proposed model not only outperforms deep neural network baselines but also other classic machine learning approaches. The extended Min-Max smoothing technique is step towards forecasting non-stationary financial time series with deep neural networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2959789
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Neural networks,activation function,value at risk,min-max normalization,forex market
Journal
7
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lkhagvadorj Munkhdalai112.03
Tsendsuren Munkhdalai216913.49
Kwang Ho Park300.34
Heon Gyu Lee4727.77
Meijing Li5507.60
Keun Ho Ryu688385.61