Predicting Stock Values
with Facebook Prophet
By Philip Harman
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​Below is an excerpt from a simple stock value prediction app I made using Dash and Facebook Prophet, which is a great tool for automated forecasting. ​The dashboard could not be embedded directly to this page per Wix's policies, but the interactive version is running through Google Kubernetes Engine at http://34.67.120.33/.
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This app outputs a 60-day forecast for the user-selected ticker, based on the previous 3 years of closing price values. The model is a univariate time series, meaning it only takes into account the historical closing values of of the stock itself and does not consider any outside factors. This is a reasonable approach in some cases, but I should point out that it's a bit of an oversimplification in others (for example, check out the apparently infinite growth that the model predicts for the notorious GME).
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For the source code of this project, check out my GitHub.