Thanks @yashrj , welcome to the forum, I hope you’ll find it useful!
Hey @toddjm, welcome to the club here! Just getting started, have been a bit busy with the recent Zipline release but will be more active here shortly: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6785002708299522048/
Hello there. Luis here, former Senior Quant @ Lehman, Barclays…now trading my own capital and setting up a ML pipeline. @Stefan, great book! good new ideas and validation of some other material. Cheers!
Hey Luis, most welcome! Glad to hear you’re finding the book useful. We are getting slowly started here, will be promoting the community more actively in a week or two when I have a bit more time. Feel free to post any questions here or on GitHub.
Meanwhile, in case you haven’t noticed yet, there’s a new Zipline version out that works with current versions of Python and other relevant libraries.
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Thanks! Yes, I saw your LinkedIn post. Cheers
Hey everyone - former FX and metals options trader at goldman in the days when backtesting simple moving averages produced stellar P&L. Been a systems trader most of my life, off and on, as I have pursued wildly divergent career paths outside of finance, but always have been trading my own book.
Fell into ML & Deep learning a few years ago and have been using it for other applications but I think its time to throw my hat into the ring again and see what it can do. Have gone through the book once and am starting to work on the code IRL
Best to all!
Hello everyone, I feel I bit dislocated here since I’m in my last year of electrical and computer engineering and by the replies I see there is a lot of people with experience. However the topic of ML always got to me as well as trading so I thought I might start with the top notch ML4T.
I’m starting with it now and not gonna lie having a bit of trouble undertanding it but with time and try and error I will get there as always.
I wish to all the best of luck and entertainment during this journey.
Hello All,
I am new and I have 2 questions:
- When is the weekly meeting (day, hour and timezone)?
- I’d like to start this project GitHub - stefan-jansen/machine-learning-for-trading: Code for Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading, 2nd edition. but I have a small macbook. Is there a somewhere free cloud on which I could install a VM or any other ways?
Thanks
Hi,
I have started ML4T and experimenting few ML model on trade open/close data. I’m interested to join the forum to share my knowledge and learn from the community. When is the weekly meeting: day/time, TZ pls.
Thanks
Hi @Diane,
welcome to the forum. I don’t think there’s a regular weekly meeting quite yet. For free cloud, Google Colaboratory comes to mind, but resources will be constrained. I’m not sure there will be a free cloud environment that let’s you use 16GB+ which is what you would probably need. However, there are many examples where you can down sample the data by selecting fewer tickers or time periods.
Hope this helps - perhaps someone else has a suggestion?
Cheers, Stefan
Welcome @Hackathon-G7! So far there doesn’t seem to be a weekly meeting yet but perhaps contacting some other members who are interested might help get it started?
Cheers,
Stefan
I think having a discord would be great! (I much prefer discord over slack/zulip.)
(I’m already in several (algo) trading discords but they are not focused on a certain curriculum like this book is.) It would be great to have a discord around this book, so we can talk to other students who are working through the same material.
@Stefan Would you be interested in creating a discord server (or allowing someone else to create/moderate a discord server) around this book? 
(I think it would also greatly increase book sales, if people know that there’s a discord around this book. Because then the learning becomes more social and people can get help when they are stuck or have questions, it’s more engaging than a forum.)
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Hi guys,
How are you?
I’m Javier Castillo, nice to be here.
Great idea by developing this community and potential events aside within this topic and networking with great people. Happy to join or help with this ;). Sometimes when starting projects some challenges might appear! Mainly time related I guess…
@Stefan Congrats for the book! To me, is an amazing combination of quality content & practical tools. Just starting it but looks promising so far… What to say about the work over Zipline, Pyfolio, etc. just great and extremely helpful ;).
Looking forward to keep catching up here! Learning from the experienced ones, and helping whenever is possible (What seems difficult by the level of the people here… hahaha. Probably more to learn than to bring just yet)
Have a nice day guys 
I have a MacBook 12" 8GB in Catalina and it works, using Conda, for most of the exercises in the book. Docker works also, most of the time
Now I’ve bough a Mac Mini M1, but I’m not dedicating now time to the book, maybe in September
Hello all,
Recently started with machine learning, looking forward for the upcoming meets and learn from the community.
Thank you
Hi All,
Excited to join the club and looking forward to meet or organize a meeting/ event to meet and discuss machine learning for algorithmic trading! I believe that together we could help each other and advance in the topics of ML4T much better and even faster.
I wish everyone good luck and the best!
Cheers,
Akif
Hi Stefan,
My name is Azrul and would love to join and learn trading using Deep Reinforcement Learning(DML).
I have 9 years of coding experience in using Meta Trader 4 and would like to advance my knowledge in DML.
Hope to hear from all of the participants here and exchange knowledge for a better understanding.
Take care all and be safe.
Hi everyone, I’m Vladimir Lialine we provide a platform for MLops and Data-pipelines. I’d love to productiose multiple ML pipelines for algo trading.
Just wanting to drop in an come out of the shadows to say hello. 25 years in aerospace engineering, mostly management over the last 15 has left me very rusty doing tip of the spear real work! Over the last couple months though I have made it a major priority to really get back at it and dive deep into python and machine learning around financials. Its been many years since I was a beast at writing C/Pascal and working in UNIX. Its staggering in a wild fun way how bigger the world is. My mind knows what it wants to do, but the syntax/structure is really hard to pick up quickly…
I’ve wandered around to many corners of this python universe and have really settled into being focused on working thru Stefan’s fantastic book and all the accompanying code he provides. I’m someone who really tries to understand for myself, research and solve my problems myself as that is how you learn. I can’t say I plan to be helpful, but I’m in a prime position to share how I overcome issues that new folks have. I’ve got a couple snags I’m working thru so there might be a few questions to come.
Hi @gtodoug, welcome to the forum! Glad you are finding the book useful - please don’t hesitate to post any questions!
Cheers, Stefan