Forecasting changes in stock prices is extremely challenging given that numerous factors cause these prices to fuctuate. The random walk hypothesis and efcient market hypothesis essentially state that it is not possible to systematically, reliably predict future stock prices or forecast changes...

In stock market forecasting, the identification of critical features that affect the performance of machine learning (ML) models is crucial to achieve accurate stock price predictions. Several review papers in the literature have focused on various ML, statistical, and deep learning-based...