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Abstract—The analysis of stock market prediction is very Stock Market Prediction (or Forecasting) has a lot of scope
interesting subject. It influences lives of investors as they need to in the coming future. A number of models have been proposed
decide upon the choice of stocks to invest on a daily basis. This for prediction of stock market indices over the years [10,
involves a lot of risk analysis as the decisions they take might lead 11].Algorithms that have ability to predict future stock values
them to loss. However, if the right decisions can be made by using accurately have a huge financial incentive for whoever has
some algorithms then this would make millionaires out of many access to them [12]. An exact prediction about tomorrow can’t
investors. This aspect alone encourages many investors and also be made accurately, but from past experiences a roughly
mathematicians to study the field of stock market analysis. But estimate about tomorrow can be predicted. In this paper, a
making a right decisions on when to invest or not is a complicated
knowledge based approach upon various forecasting
task. This paper involves the comparative study of various stochastic
models such as ARIMA model, Artificial Neural Network, Holt-
techniques has been discussed. In the field of time series
Winters model and Recurrent Neural Network to predict the closing forecasting, R has created itself an alternative for many
stock indices of Standard’s & Poor Bombay Stock Exchange sensex. Programmers, Researchers and institutes. R has extensive
facilities for analyzing time series data. In this paper, various
Keywords—Stock Market; Forecasting; ARIMA model; Holt diverse techniques has been utilized and compared with their
Winters; Neural Nets; RNN predicted accuracy by calculating the MAPE (Mean Absolute
Percentage Error).
I. INTRODUCTION
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
Stock market may be viewed as a small loan in which there
is no guarantee of the refund. A number of people invest Several researchers proposed different models and analyzed
money in the company and in return they own some stock of the predicted value of stock market. Billah et. al. proposed an
the company. The more you invest, the more share you can improved Levenberg Marquardt (LM) training algorithm of
own. Later depending upon the price at which stocks are sold, artificial neural network which can predict the possible day-
you may earn or lose. Prediction of stock marketing is based end closing stock price with less memory and time [1]. P. K.
upon information. The data in stock markets are of 2 types- Mahato and V. Attar proposed ensemble models for prediction
structured data and unstructured data [1-3]. Stock market of gold and silver stocks [2]. S. S. Luo et al. studied the impact
analysis has become one of the challenging and fascinating of specific events on stock prices and proposed an event-
topics of research as it is a highly risky due to its highly driven stock prediction, using L1 regularized Logistic
volatile and complex nature [4-7]. There are various regression model and got a conclusion that L1 logistic
economic factors which affect the market and decide whether regression is the optimal model from the comprehensive effect
the market will run in bull mode and bearish model [8]. point of view [3]. Chen and Hao proposed a hybridized
Consequently they affect our day to day life in a rather direct framework composed of FWSVM and FWKNN based on the
way. Hence they comprise of a mechanism which has direct
information gain, and apply this new framework to forecast
and significant social impacts. Unpredictability is a feature
two Chinese stock market indices [4]. Y. Zuo and E. Kita used
that all Stock Markets are characterized by, which is somehow
the The P/E ratio forecast algorithm by using Bayesian
related to their short-term and long-term effect on future.
Prediction of stock prices has been considered as one of the network for stock market prediction[5]. Anbalagan and
most challenging and risky applications in the modern time Maheswari proposed a FM approach for stock market decision
series prediction [9]. The stock market closing price is the last making, classification and prediction for short term investors
bidding price at which the security is traded on a particular of Indian stock market [6]. Various researchers proposed a
day. For the purpose of analysis, the closing stock indices of new method for stock market prediction, uses Bayesian
S&P Bombay Stock Exchange sensex for six consecutive network, dynamical Bayesian factor graph, adopts the Long
years (2007 to 2012) have been used and different stochastic Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network and incorporates
models have been used for comparative analysis. investor sentiment and market factors to improve forecasting
performance [7-10]. By extracting investor sentiment from
forum posts using Naïve Bayes, this paper makes it possible to adds the concept of integration. It is mostly applicable for
analyze the irrational component of stock price. Different stationary time series. If it is not stationary time, it is
forecasting parameters has been demonstrated in order to differentiated until it becomes stationary as most of the
provide a new qualitative method for the prediction of stock times data contains randomness i.e. it is not stationary. It
market trend [11, 12]. involves the following steps:-
a) Arima Model