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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

Deep Learning for Trading

This chapter kicks off Part 4, which covers how several deep learning (DL) modeling techniques can be useful for investment and trading. DL has achieved numerous breakthroughs in many domains, ranging from image and speech recognition to robotics and intelligent agents that have drawn widespread attention and revived large-scale research into artificial intelligence (AI). The expectations are high that the rapid development will continue and many more solutions to difficult practical problems will emerge.

In this chapter, we will present feedforward neural networks to introduce key elements of working with neural networks relevant to the various DL architectures covered in the following chapters. More specifically, we will demonstrate how to train large models efficiently using the backpropagation algorithm and manage the risks of overfitting. We will also show how to use the popular TensorFlow 2 and PyTorch frameworks, which we will leverage throughout...