Reinforcement Learning for Trading Strategies
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Course overview
- Provider
- Coursera
- Course type
- Free online course
- Level
- Intermediate
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 12 hours
- Certificate
- Paid Certificate Available
- Course author
- Jack Farmer
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Understand the structure and techniques used in reinforcement learning (RL) strategies.
Understand the benefits of using RL vs. other learning methods.
Describe the steps required to develop and test an RL trading strategy.
Describe the methods used to optimize an RL trading strategy.
Description
In the final course from the Machine Learning for Trading specialization, you will be introduced to reinforcement learning (RL) and the benefits of using reinforcement learning in trading strategies. You will learn how RL has been integrated with neural networks and review LSTMs and how they can be applied to time series data. By the end of the course, you will be able to build trading strategies using reinforcement learning, differentiate between actor-based policies and value-based policies, and incorporate RL into a momentum trading strategy.To be successful in this course, you should have advanced competency in Python programming and familiarity with pertinent libraries for machine learning, such as Scikit-Learn, StatsModels, and Pandas. Experience with SQL is recommended. You should have a background in statistics (expected values and standard deviation, Gaussian distributions, higher moments, probability, linear regressions) and foundational knowledge of financial markets (equities, bonds, derivatives, market structure, hedging).
