{"id":4554,"date":"2025-06-09T13:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:06:59","slug":"ever-wondered-what-to-use-to-make-the-right-investment-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/ever-wondered-what-to-use-to-make-the-right-investment-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever wondered what to use to make the right investment decision?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher<\/strong>: Dimpho Mosaka, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr Martins Arasomwan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><p>More studies have demonstrated that the DeepNeural Networks(DNN)techniques can be used to forecast the stock market price. This research project aims to investigate the effectiveness of deep neural network techniques in the SouthAfrican stock market price forecastinhusing Long-Short TermMemory(LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Network( CNN) technique, including the challenges and opportunities of this approach<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2187700224-Dimpho-Mosaka-41315_Dimpho_Mosaka_Capstone_Project_Poster_18079_1321804463-723x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2187700224-Dimpho-Mosaka-41315_Dimpho_Mosaka_Capstone_Project_Poster_18079_1321804463-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2187700224-Dimpho-Mosaka-41315_Dimpho_Mosaka_Capstone_Project_Poster_18079_1321804463-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2187700224-Dimpho-Mosaka-41315_Dimpho_Mosaka_Capstone_Project_Poster_18079_1321804463-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2187700224-Dimpho-Mosaka-41315_Dimpho_Mosaka_Capstone_Project_Poster_18079_1321804463-1085x1536.jpg 1085w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2187700224-Dimpho-Mosaka-41315_Dimpho_Mosaka_Capstone_Project_Poster_18079_1321804463-1447x2048.jpg 1447w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2187700224-Dimpho-Mosaka-41315_Dimpho_Mosaka_Capstone_Project_Poster_18079_1321804463-600x849.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2187700224-Dimpho-Mosaka-41315_Dimpho_Mosaka_Capstone_Project_Poster_18079_1321804463-scaled.jpg 1808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Dimpho Mosaka, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Martins Arasomwan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg More studies have demonstrated that the DeepNeural Networks(DNN)techniques can be used to forecast the stock market price. This research project aims to investigate the effectiveness of deep neural network techniques in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}