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Introduction to Trading, Machine Learning & GCP
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Introduction to Trading, Machine Learning & GCP

This course is part of Machine Learning for Trading Specialization

Taught in English

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Jack Farmer

Instructor: Jack Farmer

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9 hours (approximately)
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What you'll learn

  • Understand the fundamentals of trading, including the concepts of trend, returns, stop-loss, and volatility.

  • Define quantitative trading and the main types of quantitative trading strategies.

  • Understand the basic steps in exchange arbitrage, statistical arbitrage, and index arbitrage.

  • Understand the application of machine learning to financial use cases.

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Course

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals

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There are 4 modules in this course

In this module you will be introduced to the fundamentals of trading. You will also be introduced to machine learning. Machine Learning is both an art that involves knowledge of the right mix of parameters that yields accurate, generalized models and a science that involves knowledge of the theory to solve specific types of problems.

What's included

26 videos3 readings4 quizzes1 app item

In this module you will be introduced to supervised machine learning and some relevant algorithms commonly applied to trading problems. You will get some hands-on experience building a regression model using BigQuery Machine Learning

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6 videos1 reading1 quiz2 app items

In this module you will learn about ARIMA modeling and how it is applied to time series data. You will get hands-on experience building an ARIMA model for a financial dataset.

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11 videos1 quiz1 app item

In this module you'll learn about neural networks and how they relate to deep learning. You'll also learn how to gauge model generalization using regularization, and cross-validation. Also, you'll be introduced to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Specifically, you'll be shown how to leverage GCP for implementing trading techniques.

What's included

5 videos1 reading2 quizzes1 discussion prompt

Instructor

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Jack Farmer
New York Institute of Finance
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