Python for Machine Learning in Finance | An Introduction | Free Quantra Course

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Welcome to this course on Python for machine learning in finance. The world is moving towards automation and machine learning and the finance industry is no different.
But how can machine learning be used in finance?
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Various hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms rely on machine learning to create their trading strategies. Renaissance technologies and Tower research are just two examples of hundreds of AI-driven funds.
Why should you use Python for machine learning?
Machine learning can be implemented in any programming language. In fact C++ is used by programmers to implement ML projects which are time-sensitive. If you are an HFT firm you might choose C++. But an overwhelming majority use Python because it is easier to learn, it supports various ML libraries. And the syntax is cleaner and easy to understand.
Depending on your requirements you can choose any library be it scikit-learn or TensorFlow.
Thus you won’t need a computer science or programming degree to implement machine learning algorithms in your domain. You simply need to know the Python ML libraries and syntax. And with a few lines of code implement your ML project in real-time.
This course gives you a detailed and step-by-step guide to create a machine learning trading strategy. You will use Python libraries which will help you read the data. Further you will use machine learning to first find patterns in the data. And then generate signals on whether you should buy or sell the asset. But this is one part of creating a trading strategy.
In the next part you will learn how to analyse the performance of the model. You can play around with the code and tweak them. And we have also integrated a live trading template so that you can use the ML algorithm in the live markets.
Thus not only will you learn machine learning and its application in trading. You will also see how it performs in the live markets.

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