Understanding the trading strategy
For this hands-on exercise, we'll be implementing an interesting trading strategy that leverages several parts of the Flair NLP framework. The strategy is by no means the best and optimal trading strategy or one that is guaranteed to get you rich. It is, however, a strategy that clearly shows how Flair can be used to solve real-world problems with ease.
The strategy will help us make decisions about trading stock. There are many sources of information based on which one can make their trading decisions. A particularly interesting type of trading strategy leverages NLP to process recent news content. The underlying assumption of these trading strategies is that news articles that discuss a certain company hold important information about events that are likely to affect the company's stock price. Automated NLP strategies have a number of advantages compared to humans when it comes to investing. The advantages mostly boil down to the speed...