Copper price prediction using LSTM recurrent neural network integrated simulated annealing algorithm.

Journal: PloS one
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Abstract

Copper is an important mineral and fluctuations in copper prices can affect the stable functioning of some countries' economies. Policy makers, futures traders and individual investors are very concerned about copper prices. In a recent paper, we use an artificial intelligence model long short-term memory (LSTM) to predict copper prices. To improve the efficiency of long short-term memory (LSTM) model, we introduced a simulated annealing (SA) algorithm to find the best combination of hyperparameters. The feature engineering problem of the AI model is then solved by correlation analysis. Three economic indicators, West Texas Intermediate Oil Price, Gold Price and Silver Price, which are highly correlated with copper prices, were selected as inputs to be used in the training and forecasting model. Three different copper price time periods, namely 485, 363 and 242 days, were chosen for the model forecasts. The forecast errors are 0.00195, 0.0019 and 0.00097, respectively. Compared with the existing literature, the prediction results of this paper are more accurate and less error. The research in this paper provides a reliable reference for analyzing future copper price changes.

Authors

  • Jiahao Chen
    The First School of Clinical Medicine, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310006, China.
  • Jiahui Yi
    School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
  • Kailei Liu
    Economics & Technology Research Institute, China National Petroleum Corporation, Beijing, China.
  • Jinhua Cheng
    Institute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China.
  • Yin Feng
    School of Lowcarben Economics, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
  • Chuandi Fang
    Law and Business School, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.