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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

Index

Symbols

1/N portfolio 132

(first), high, low, and closing (last) price and volume (OHLCV) 35

LSTM architecture 599, 600

A

Accession Number (adsh) 55

AdaBoost algorithm 367

advantages 369

disadvantages 369

used, for predicting monthly price moves 369, 371

AdaGrad 528

adaptive boosting 366, 367

adaptive learning rates

about 527

AdaGrad 528

adaptive moment derivation (Adam) 528

RMSProp 528

adaptive moment derivation (Adam) 528

agglomerative clustering 435

aggressive strategies 4

Akaike information criterion (AIC) 183

AlexNet 564

AlexNet performance

comparing 566, 567

algorithm

finding, for task 149

Algorithm API 243

algorithmic trading libraries

Alpha Trading Labs

Interactive Brokers

pybacktest

Python Algorithmic Trading Library (PyAlgoTrade)

QuantConnect

Trading with Python

ultrafinance

WorldQuant

AlgoSeek 41

AlgoSeek intraday...