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Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading - Second Edition

By : Stefan Jansen
Book Image

Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading - Second Edition

By: Stefan Jansen

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)
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References
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Index

Learning latent topics – Goals and approaches

Topic modeling discovers hidden themes that capture semantic information beyond individual words in a body of documents. It aims to address a key challenge for a machine learning algorithm that learns from text data by transcending the lexical level of "what actually has been written" to the semantic level of "what was intended." The resulting topics can be used to annotate documents based on their association with various topics.

In practical terms, topic models automatically summarize large collections of documents to facilitate organization and management as well as search and recommendations. At the same time, it enables the understanding of documents to the extent that humans can interpret the descriptions of topics.

Topic models also mitigate the curse of dimensionality that often plagues the BOW model; representing documents with high-dimensional, sparse vectors can make similarity measures noisy...