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Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading: Predictive models to extract signals from market and alternative data for systematic trading strategies with Python, 2nd Edition
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.That was a good book. I looked at it recently and it’s now in the 3rd edition! Congrats.Any other suggestions for good Packt books?
I agree, Packt’s quality is much lower than other publishers. As a rule of thumb I stay away but occasionally there’s a gem.
I’ve been looking at “Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading”. It feels like a dump of wikipedia and a bunch of jupyter notebooks with sloppy code. I cannot decide if it’s worth the pain if slogging through that mess.
https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Trading-...
⬐ BOOSTERHIDROGENhttps://www.amazon.com/Advances-Financial-Machine-Learning-M...
finance book do help, 'ML for finance' books rarely do, the domain is too new and attracts many charlatans.You're better off just learning ML from its classics like Hastie & Tibshirani , Tom Mitchell, or Bishop PRML.
And learn finance from its own classics you can find in any "financial engineering" curriculum.
There is one I liked though because of hands-on approach:
"Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading" https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Trading-...
just assume its listed "strategies" are a sort of primitive "hello world"
⬐ dhruva_kI think you have to read these books with the knowledge that the strategies you find in them are not going to be the ones to make you millions. No one ever got rich reading a book and copying exactly what it told them to, otherwise we'd all have our yachts in Miami.I personally have no issue with ML for finance books as long as they aren't just explaining rigid strategies, but more how to approach the topic of forecasting something as difficult as the financial markets. I think it's more about learning how to think when you're looking at these charts vs what is the one ML model that is going to bring me success for the rest of my life.