Fractional-order grey models have received more attention owing to superiority to integer-order ones in terms of the prediction performance. In this paper, to further improve the performance of grey-based model, a new method based on conformable fractional derivative, the continuous conformable fractional grey model (denoted as CCFGM(1,1) for short), is proposed. In comparison with the traditional fractional-order grey models, the novel model possesses the simpler computation procedure. The numerical results of two real cases show that the prediction performance of the novel model is superior ...