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Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading - Second Edition
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Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading
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Overview of this book
The explosive growth of digital data has boosted the demand for expertise in trading strategies that use machine learning (ML). This revised and expanded second edition enables you to build and evaluate sophisticated supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning models.
This book introduces end-to-end machine learning for the trading workflow, from the idea and feature engineering to model optimization, strategy design, and backtesting. It illustrates this by using examples ranging from linear models and tree-based ensembles to deep-learning techniques from cutting edge research.
This edition shows how to work with market, fundamental, and alternative data, such as tick data, minute and daily bars, SEC filings, earnings call transcripts, financial news, or satellite images to generate tradeable signals. It illustrates how to engineer financial features or alpha factors that enable an ML model to predict returns from price data for US and international stocks and ETFs. It also shows how to assess the signal content of new features using Alphalens and SHAP values and includes a new appendix with over one hundred alpha factor examples.
By the end, you will be proficient in translating ML model predictions into a trading strategy that operates at daily or intraday horizons, and in evaluating its performance.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Preface
Machine Learning for Trading – From Idea to Execution
Market and Fundamental Data – Sources and Techniques
Alternative Data for Finance – Categories and Use Cases
Financial Feature Engineering – How to Research Alpha Factors
Portfolio Optimization and Performance Evaluation
The Machine Learning Process
Linear Models – From Risk Factors to Return Forecasts
The ML4T Workflow – From Model to Strategy Backtesting
Time-Series Models for Volatility Forecasts and Statistical Arbitrage
Bayesian ML – Dynamic Sharpe Ratios and Pairs Trading
Random Forests – A Long-Short Strategy for Japanese Stocks
Boosting Your Trading Strategy
Data-Driven Risk Factors and Asset Allocation with Unsupervised Learning
Text Data for Trading – Sentiment Analysis
Topic Modeling – Summarizing Financial News
Word Embeddings for Earnings Calls and SEC Filings
Deep Learning for Trading
CNNs for Financial Time Series and Satellite Images
RNNs for Multivariate Time Series and Sentiment Analysis
Autoencoders for Conditional Risk Factors and Asset Pricing
Generative Adversarial Networks for Synthetic Time-Series Data
Deep Reinforcement Learning – Building a Trading Agent
Conclusions and Next Steps
References
Index