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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)
24
References
25
Index

Summary

In this chapter, we explored the use of topic modeling to gain insights into the content of a large collection of documents. We covered latent semantic indexing that uses dimensionality reduction of the DTM to project documents into a latent topic space. While effective in addressing the curse of dimensionality caused by high-dimensional word vectors, it does not capture much semantic information. Probabilistic models make explicit assumptions about the interplay of documents, topics, and words that allow algorithms to reverse engineer the document generation process and evaluate the model fit on new documents. We learned that LDA is capable of extracting plausible topics that allow us to gain a high-level understanding of large amounts of text in an automated way, while also identifying relevant documents in a targeted way.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to train neural networks that embed individual words in a high-dimensional vector space that captures important...