Preface

The Open Quant Book

Description

The book aims to be an Open Source introductory reference of the most important aspects of financial data analysis, algo trading, portfolio selection, econophysics and machine learning in finance with an emphasis in reproducibility and openness not to be found in most other typical Wall Street-like references.

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Working Contents

  1. The Basics
  • I/O
  • Stylized Facts
  1. Algo Trading
  • Investment Process
  • Backtesting
  • Factor Investing
  • Limit Order
  1. Portfolio Optimization
  • Convex Optimization
  • Risk Parity Portfolios
  1. Machine Learning
  • Intro
  • Agent-Based Models
  • Binary Classifiers
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Hierarchical Risk Parity
  • AutoML
  1. Econophysics
  • Entropy, Efficiency and Bubbles
  • Nonparametric Statistical Causality: An Information-Theoretical Approach
  • Financial Networks
  1. Alternative Data
  • The Market, The Players, The Rules
  • Case Studies

Book’s information

First published at: openquants.com.

Licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Copyright (c) 2019. OpenQuants.com, New York, NY.

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