Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting Intraday Price Movements: An Evaluation of RNN Variants on High-Frequency Stock Data

Abstract

This study discusses the comparison of four recurrent neural networks (RNN) models: Simple RNN, Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and Bidirectional RNN (BiRNN), in forecasting minute-level stock price time series data. The performance of these four models is evaluated using the Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) on a stock dataset from Bank Central Asia (BBCA.JK). The experimental results reveal that the GRU model exhibits the best performance with an average MAPE of 0.0255%, followed by the LSTM model with an average MAPE of 0.0377%. The BiRNN model also demonstrates good performance with an average MAPE of 0.0668%, while the Simple RNN has the highest average MAPE at 0.5118%. This suggests that more complex recurrent architectures like GRU and LSTM have better capabilities in capturing patterns in high-frequency time series data. This study can be expanded by exploring other models such as CNN, conducting tests on diverse datasets, and experimenting with a wider range of hyperparameter variations. Additional variables such as economic indicators, global market data, and social data can also offer a more comprehensive understanding of factors influencing stock prices.