This course provides the foundation for developing advanced trading strategies using machine learning techniques. In this course, you’ll review the key components that are common to every trading strategy, no matter how complex. You’ll be introduced to multiple trading strategies including quantitative trading, pairs trading, and momentum trading. By the end of the course, you will be able to design basic quantitative trading strategies, build machine learning models using Keras and TensorFlow, build a pair trading strategy prediction model and back test it, and build a momentum-based trading model and back test it.
Using Machine Learning in Trading and Finance
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Using Machine Learning in Trading and Finance
This course is part of Machine Learning for Trading Specialization
Instructor: Jack Farmer
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Intermediate level
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8 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
Design basic quantitative trading strategies
Use Keras and Tensorflow to build machine learning models
Build a pair trading strategy prediction model and back test it.
Build a momentum-based trading model and back test it.
Skills you'll gain
- Financial Trading
- Data Pipelines
- Model Training
- Performance Metric
- Machine Learning
- Correlation Analysis
- Market Data
- Data Preprocessing
- Securities Trading
- Deep Learning
- Feature Engineering
- Technical Analysis
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Market Trend
- Applied Machine Learning
- Model Evaluation
- Statistical Machine Learning
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Taught in English
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NS
Reviewed on Jan 26, 2020
I enjoyed the course. Well organized, Good topics.I miss more projects, higher challenge in the projects. (more TODO)There was no practice of Kalman filters.links on the slides are not accessible :-(
NA
Reviewed on Jan 1, 2022
Such a great course, the introduction(first part in specialization) was kinda useless for me, but this one is amazing.
AP
Reviewed on Jul 6, 2021
It's not deep enough to understand how to implement ML in algorithmic trading, but the course explains some helpful concepts like pairs trading and Kalmar filter.
