Watch: Introduction to Quant Finance with Quantiacs Toolbox

This presentation by Eric Hamer will take you through the basics of machine learning and quant finance, and illustrate how to create and test machine learning strategies using Quantiacs.

The webinar covers:

– An Overview of Machine Learning

– The Machine Learning Process

– Features of the Quantiacs toolkit

– Applying Machine Learning to Futures Data Using Quantiacs

– Discussing Results

– Machine Learning Tips and Pitfalls

[Related Article: A conversation with Thomas Wiecki on the use of probabilistic programming and machine learning in quant finance.]

Github Resources:

– Sample Python trading strategies https://github.com/Quantiacs/quantiac…

– Source code (simpleKeras.py file) — https://github.com/Quantiacs/quantiac…

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