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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

Conclusion

We started by highlighting the explosion of digital data and the emergence of ML as a strategic capability for investment and trading strategies. This dynamic reflects global business and technology trends beyond finance and is much more likely to continue than to stall or reverse. Many investment firms are just getting started to leverage the range of artificial intelligence tools, just as individuals are acquiring the relevant skills and business processes are adapting to these new opportunities for value creation, as outlined in the introductory chapter.

There are also numerous exciting developments for the application of ML to trading on the horizon that are likely to propel the current momentum. They are likely to become relevant in the coming years and include the automation of the ML process, the generation of synthetic training data, and the emergence of quantum computing. The extraordinary vibrancy of the field implies that this alone could fill a book and...