Publication detail

Development of copper price from July 1959 and predicted development till the end of year 2022

VOCHOZKA, M. KALINOVÁ, E. GAO, P. SMOLÍKOVÁ, L.

Original Title

Development of copper price from July 1959 and predicted development till the end of year 2022

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The increasingly meagre copper ore resources constitute one of the decisive factors influencing the price of this commodity. The demand for copper has been showing an accelerating trend since the Covid pandemic broke out. It is thereby imperative to estimate the future price movement of this material. The article focuses on a daily prediction of the forthcoming change in prices of copper on the commodity market. The research data were gathered from day-to-day closing historical prices of copper from commodity stock COMEX converted to a time series. The price is expressed in US Dollars per pound. The data were processed using artificial intelligence, recurrent neural networks, including the Long Short Term Memory layer. Neural networks have a great potential to predict this type of time series. The results show that the volatility in copper price during the monitored period was low or close to zero. We may thereby argue that neural networks foresee the first three months more accurately than the rest of the examined period. Neural structures anticipate copper prices from 4.5 to 4.6 USD to the end of the period in question. Low volatility that would last longer than one year would cut down speculators’ profits to a minimum (lower risk). On the other hand, this situation would bring about balance which the purchasing companies avidly seek for. However, the presented article is solely confined to a limited number of variables to work with, disregarding other decisive criteria. Although the very high performance of the experimental prediction model, there is always space for improvement – e.g. effectively combining traditional methods with advanced techniques of artificial intelligence.

Keywords

Copper price, neural networks, time series, future trend, commodity

Authors

VOCHOZKA, M.; KALINOVÁ, E.; GAO, P.; SMOLÍKOVÁ, L.

Released

12. 8. 2021

Publisher

Technical University of Kosice

ISBN

1335-1788

Periodical

Acta Montanistica Slovaca

Year of study

26

Number

2

State

Slovak Republic

Pages from

262

Pages to

280

Pages count

19

URL

https://actamont.tuke.sk/pdf/2021/n2/7vochozka.pdf

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/203199

BibTex

@article{BUT172753,
  author="Marek {Vochozka} and Eva {Kalinová} and Peng {Gao} and Lenka {Širáňová}",
  title="Development of copper price from July 1959 and predicted development till the end of year 2022",
  journal="Acta Montanistica Slovaca",
  year="2021",
  volume="26",
  number="2",
  pages="262--280",
  doi="10.46544/AMS.v26i2.07",
  issn="1335-1788",
  url="https://actamont.tuke.sk/pdf/2021/n2/7vochozka.pdf"
}