Agustin Rubini has compiled over 70 in-depth interviews with founders of FinTech companies that provide real-world insights and practical lessons about financial technology and its applications. This publication helps readers understand the most pressing challenges and opportunities that come with the disruption of the financial industry.
Concurrently with the management of investments, between 2011 and 2018 Marcos was a research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science). He has published dozens of scientific articles on machine learning and supercomputing in the leading academic journals, is a founding co-editor of The Journal of Financial Data Science, and SSRN ranks him as the most-read author in economics.
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This book disentangles a web of interconnected topics and presents them in an ordered fashion. Each chapter assumes that you have read the previous ones. Part 1 will help you structure your financial data in a way that is amenable to ML algorithms. Part 2 discusses how to do research with ML algorithms on that data. Here the emphasis is on doing research and making an actual discovery through a scientific process, as opposed to searching aimlessly until some serendipitous (likely false) result pops up. Part 3 explains how to backtest your discovery and evaluate the probability that it is false.
This book presents advanced ML methods specifically designed to address the challenges posed by financial datasets. By advanced I do not mean extremely difficult to grasp, or explaining the latest reincarnation of deep, recurrent, or convolutional neural networks. Instead, the book answers questions that senior researchers, who have experience applying ML algorithms to financial problems, will recognize as critical. If you are new to ML, and you do not have experience working with complex algorithms, this book may not be for you (yet). Unless you have confronted in practice the problems discussed in these chapters, you may have difficulty understanding the utility of solving them. Before reading this book, you may want to study several excellent introductory ML books published in recent years. I have listed a few of them in the references section.
The algorithmization of finance is unstoppable. Between June 12, 1968, and December 31, 1968, the NYSE was closed every Wednesday, so that back office could catch up with paperwork. Can you imagine that? We live in a different world today, and in 10 years things will be even better. Because the next wave of automation does not involve following rules, but making judgment calls. As emotional beings, subject to fears, hopes, and agendas, humans are not particularly good at making fact-based decisions, particularly when those decisions involve conflicts of interest. In those situations, investors are better served when a machine makes the calls, based on facts learned from hard data. This not only applies to investment strategy development, but to virtually every area of financial advice: granting a loan, rating a bond, classifying a company, recruiting talent, predicting earnings, forecasting inflation, etc. Furthermore, machines will comply with the law, always, when programmed to do so. If a dubious decision is made, investors can go back to the logs and understand exactly what happened. It is much easier to improve an algorithmic investment process than one relying entirely on humans.
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In this updated, second edition, readers learn about working with various types of data (market, fundamental, alternative) in order to create tradeable signals. In addition, the book shows how readers can predict returns for both US and international assets, and even includes a handy appendix with 100+ alpha factor examples. If you're interested in getting into the nitty gritty of machine learning and algo trading, then this will be of interest to you.
In Python for Finance: Mastering Data-Driven Finance, Hilpisch dives into how to best develop Python programming skills that can be put to immediate use in the algorithmic trading sector. It must be said that the book does require the reader to have some background in programming, as it focuses on how to use the language in real trading environments. Hilpisch has also written and worked on many other books on effective programming for financial markets, including Python for Finance, Derivatives Analytics with Python as well as Listed Volatility and Variance Derivatives, making him something of an established authority.
Today's machine learning (ML) algorithms have conquered the major strategy games, and are routinely used to execute tasks once only possible by a limited group of experts. Over the next few years, ML algorithms will transform finance beyond anything we know today. Advances in Financial Machine Learning was written for the investment professionals and data scientists at the forefront of this evolution. This one-of-a-kind, practical guidebook is your go-to resource of authoritative insight into using advanced ML solutions to overcome real-world investment problems. It demystifies the entire subject and unveils cutting-edge ML techniques specific to investing. With step-by-step clarity and purpose, it quickly brings you up to speed on fully proven approaches to data analysis, model research, and discovery evaluation. Then, it shines a light on the nuanced details behind innovative ways to extract informative features from financial data. To streamline implementation, it gives you valuable recipes for high-performance computing systems optimized to handle this type of financial data analysis. Advances in Financial Machine Learning crosses the proverbial divide that separates academia and the industry. It does not advocate a theory merely because of its mathematical beauty, and it does not propose a solution just because it appears to work. The author transmits the kind of knowledge that only comes from experience, formalized in a rigorous manner. This turnkey guide is designed to be immediately useful to the practitioner by featuring code snippets and hands-on exercises that facilitate the quick absorption and application of best practices in the real world. Stop guessing and profit off data by: Tackling today's most challenging aspects of applying ML algorithms to financial strategies, including backtest overfitting
Using improved tactics to structure financial data so it produces better outcomes with ML algorithms
Conducting superior research with ML algorithms as well as accurately validating the solutions you discover
Learning the tricks of the trade from one of the largest ML investment managers
Put yourself ahead of tomorrow's competition today with Advances in Financial Machine Learning.
Praise for ADVANCES in FINANCIAL MACHINE LEARNING"Dr. López de Prado has written the first comprehensive book describing the application of modern ML to financial modeling. The book blends the latest technological developments in ML with critical life lessons learned from the author's decades of financial experience in leading academic and industrial institutions. I highly recommend this exciting book to both prospective students of financial ML and the professors and supervisors who teach and guide them." —PROF. PETER CARR, Chair of the Finance and Risk Engineering Department, NYU Tandon School of Engineering "Financial problems require very distinct machine learning solutions. Dr. López de Prado's book is the first one to characterize what makes standard machine learning tools fail when applied to the field of finance, and the first one to provide practical solutions to unique challenges faced by asset managers. Everyone who wants to understand the future of finance should read this book." —PROF. FRANK FABOZZI, EDHEC Business School; Editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management"Marcos has assembled in one place an invaluable set of lessons and techniques for practitioners seeking to deploy machine learning methods in finance. Marcos's insightful book is laden with useful advice to help keep a curious practitioner from going down any number of blind alleys, or shooting oneself in the foot." —ROSS GARON, Head of Cubist Systematic Strategies; Managing Director, Point72 Asset Management "The first wave of quantitative innovation in finance was led by Markowitz optimization. Machine learning is the second wave and it will touch every aspect of finance. López de Prado's Advances in Financial Machine Learning is essential for readers who want to be ahead of the technology rather than being replaced by it." —PROF. CAMPBELL HARVEY, Duke University; Former President of the American Finance Association "The author's academic and professional first-rate credentials shine through the pages of this book— indeed, I could think of few, if any, authors better suited to explaining both the theoretical and the practical aspects of this new and (for most)unfamiliar subject. Destined to become a classic in this rapidly burgeoning field." —PROF. RICCARDO REBONATO, EDHEC Business School; Former Global Head of Rates and FX Analytics at PIMCO
Concurrently with the management of multibillion-dollar funds, since 2011 Marcos has been a research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science). He has published dozens of scientific articles on machine learning and supercomputing in the leading academic journals, is a founding co-editor of The Journal of Financial Data Science, has testified before the U.S. Congress on AI policy, and SSRN ranks him as the most-read author in economics. Marcos is the author of several popular graduate textbooks, including Advances in Financial Machine Learning (Wiley, 2018) and Machine Learning for Asset Managers (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Marcos earned a PhD in financial econometrics (2003), and a second PhD in mathematical finance (2011) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He completed his post-doctoral research at Harvard University and Cornell University, where he is a faculty member. Marcos has an Erdős #2 and an Einstein #4 according to the American Mathematical Society. 2ff7e9595c
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