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AI in the Trading and Asset Management Landscape

  • Emerging trends in algorithmic and AI-based trading
  • An overview of quantitative finance workflows
  • Essential tools, platforms, and data sources

Working with Financial Data in Python

  • Managing time series data using Pandas
  • Data cleaning, transformation, and feature engineering
  • Calculating financial indicators and constructing 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 identifying 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 optimisation
  • Dynamic rebalancing using predictive inputs

Backtesting and Strategy Evaluation

  • Utilising Backtrader or custom frameworks
  • Analysing 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

  • A solid understanding of fundamental statistics and financial markets
  • Practical experience with Python programming
  • Familiarity with time series data analysis

Target Audience

  • Quantitative analysts
  • Trading professionals
  • Portfolio managers
 21 Hours

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