Bormpotsis, Christos, Sedky, Mohamed and Patel, Asma (2023). Predicting Forex Currency Fluctuations Using a Novel Bio-Inspired Modular Neural Network. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 7 (3),
Abstract
In the realm of foreign exchange (Forex) market predictions, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been commonly employed. However, these models often exhibit instability due to vulnerability to data perturbations attributed to their monolithic architecture. Hence, this study proposes a novel neuroscience-informed modular network that harnesses closing prices and sentiments from Yahoo Finance and Twitter APIs. Compared to monolithic methods, the objective is to advance the effectiveness of predicting price fluctuations in Euro to British Pound Sterling (EUR/GBP). The proposed model offers a unique methodology based on a reinvigorated modular CNN, replacing pooling layers with orthogonal kernel initialisation RNNs coupled with Monte Carlo Dropout (MCoRNNMCD). It integrates two pivotal modules: a convolutional simple RNN and a convolutional Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). These modules incorporate orthogonal kernel initialisation and Monte Carlo Dropout techniques to mitigate overfitting, assessing each module’s uncertainty. The synthesis of these parallel feature extraction modules culminates in a three-layer Artificial Neural Network (ANN) decision-making module. Established on objective metrics like the Mean Square Error (MSE), rigorous evaluation underscores the proposed MCoRNNMCD–ANN’s exceptional performance. MCoRNNMCD–ANN surpasses single CNNs, LSTMs, GRUs, and the state-of-the-art hybrid BiCuDNNLSTM, CLSTM, CNN–LSTM, and LSTM–GRU in predicting hourly EUR/GBP closing price fluctuations.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc7030152 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management College of Business and Social Sciences College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School Aston University (General) |
Additional Information: | Copyright © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sentiment Analysis,Neural Network,rational choice,foreign exchange market,Prediction |
Publication ISSN: | 2504-2289 |
Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2025 08:25 |
Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2025 17:19 |
Full Text Link: |
https://www.mdp ... 04-2289/7/3/152 |
Related URLs: | PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2023-09-15 |
Accepted Date: | 2023-09-13 |
Authors: |
Bormpotsis, Christos
Sedky, Mohamed Patel, Asma ( ![]() |