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The Landscape of AI in Trading and Asset Management

  • Emerging trends in algorithmic and AI-driven trading.
  • A comprehensive overview of quantitative finance workflows.
  • Key tools, platforms, and essential data sources.

Managing Financial Data with Python

  • Processing 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 forecasting.
  • 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 identifying volatility regimes.
  • Dimensionality reduction for uncovering patterns.
  • Applications in basket trading and risk grouping.

AI-Enhanced Portfolio Optimisation

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

Backtesting and Strategy Assessment

  • Utilising 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 basic statistics and financial market structures.
  • Practical experience with Python programming.
  • Familiarity with the nuances of time series data.

Target Audience

  • Quantitative analysts.
  • Trading professionals.
  • Portfolio managers.
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