A study of forecasts in Financial Time Series using Machine Learning methods

Forecasting financial time series is one of the most challenging problems in economics and business. Markets are highly complex due to non-linear factors in data and uncertainty. It moves up and down without any pattern. Based on historical univariate close prices from the S\&P 500, SSE, and FTSE 100 indexes, this thesis forecasts future values using two different approaches: one using a classical method, a Seasonal ARIMA model, and a hybrid ARIMA-GARCH model, while the other uses an LSTM neural network. Each method is used to perform at different forecast horizons. Experimental results have proven that the LSTM and Hybrid ARIMA-GARCH model performs better than the SARIMA model. To measure the model performance we used the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE)