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Spatiotemporal adaptive neural network for long-term forecasting of financial time series

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING
Volume 132, Issue -, Pages 70-85

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2020.12.002

Keywords

Time series forecasting; Semi-supervised learning; Dynamic factor graphs; Neural networks

Funding

  1. NSERC CRD - Quebec Prompt - Laplace Insights - EAM [CRDPJ 537461-18, 114-IA-Wang-DRC 2019]
  2. Mitacs Acceleration [IT13429]
  3. FQRNT [B2 270188]

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This study investigates the use of deep neural network models for forecasting in settings with complex time series behaviors. By building a multivariate autoregressive model and proposing a novel variable-length attention mechanism, the limitations of recurrent neural networks are effectively addressed. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly outperforms typical models in financial time series forecasting.
Optimal decision-making in social settings is often based on forecasts from time series (TS) data. Recently, several approaches using deep neural networks (DNNs) such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been introduced for TS forecasting and have shown promising results. However, the applicability of these approaches is being questioned for TS settings where there is a lack of quality training data and where the TS to forecast exhibit complex behaviors. Examples of such settings include financial TS forecasting, where producing accurate and consistent long-term forecasts is notoriously difficult. In this work, we investigate whether DNN-based models can be used to forecast these TS conjointly by learning a joint representation of the series instead of computing the forecast from the raw time-series representations. To this end, we make use of the dynamic factor graph (DFG) to build a multivariate autoregressive model. We investigate a common limitation of RNNs that rely on the DFG framework and propose a novel variable-length attention-based mechanism (ACTM) to address it. With ACTM, it is possible to vary the autoregressive order of a TS model over time and model a larger set of probability distributions than with previous approaches. Using this mechanism, we propose a self-supervised DNN architecture for multivariate TS forecasting that learns and takes advantage of the relationships between them. We test our model on two datasets covering 19 years of investment fund activities. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach significantly outperforms typical DNN-based and statistical models at forecasting the 21-day price trajectory. We point out how improving forecasting accuracy and knowing which forecaster to use can improve the excess return of autonomous trading strategies. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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