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 Duration 21 hours (3 days)

Course Outline

AI in the Trading and Asset Management Landscape

  • Trends in algorithmic and AI-driven trading
  • Overview of quantitative finance workflows
  • Essential tools, platforms, and data sources

Handling Financial Data with Python

  • Managing time series data using Pandas
  • Data cleansing, transformation, and feature engineering
  • Constructing financial indicators and trading signals

Supervised Learning for Trading Signals

  • Regression and classification models for market prediction
  • Assessing predictive models (e.g., accuracy, precision, Sharpe ratio)
  • Case study: Developing an ML-based signal generator

Unsupervised Learning and Market Regimes

  • Clustering techniques for volatility regimes
  • Dimensionality reduction for pattern discovery
  • Applications in basket trading and risk grouping

Portfolio Optimization with AI Techniques

  • The Markowitz framework and its inherent limitations
  • Risk parity, Black-Litterman, and ML-based optimization
  • Dynamic rebalancing utilizing predictive inputs

Backtesting and Strategy Evaluation

  • Utilizing Backtrader or custom frameworks
  • Risk-adjusted performance metrics
  • Mitigating overfitting and look-ahead bias

Deploying AI Models in Live Trading

  • Integration with trading APIs and execution platforms
  • Model monitoring and re-training cycles
  • Ethical, regulatory, and operational considerations

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of statistics and financial markets
  • Proficiency in Python programming
  • Basic familiarity with time series data

Target Audience

  • Quantitative analysts
  • Trading professionals
  • Portfolio managers

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