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
Using Machine Learning in Trading and Finance
This course is part of Machine Learning for Trading Specialization
Instructor: Jack Farmer
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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.
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There are 5 modules in this course
In this module we discuss the key components that are common to every trading strategy, no matter how complex. This foundation will help guide you as you develop more advanced strategies using machine learning techniques.
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4 videos1 reading1 quiz
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11 videos2 app items
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12 videos2 app items
Momentum trading is a strategy in which traders buy or sell assets according to the strength of recent price trends. Price momentum is similar to momentum in physics, where mass multiplied by velocity determines the persistence with which an object will follow its current path (like a heavy train on a track). In financial markets, however, momentum is determined by other factors like trading volume and rate of price changes. Momentum traders bet that an asset price that is moving strongly in a given direction will continue to move in that direction until the trend loses strength or reverses. This module teaches you all about momentum trading.
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12 videos1 reading2 app items1 discussion prompt
In this module, we introduce pairs trading. We will discuss what pairs trading is, and how you can make money doing it. We will discuss what you need to know about the members to form a suitable pair.
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NS
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Reviewed on Jan 27, 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 :-(
GY
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Reviewed on Jun 28, 2022
Although the often glitches in the Google Cloud platform prevented me to complete the exercises, the course material is very useful.
CE
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Reviewed on Feb 11, 2020
The material is immediately useful and highly practical for people already in financial services.
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