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.
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.
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?
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?
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.)
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)
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.
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.
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.
Hello All! My Name is John Perry, I recently graduated with a masters in computer science focusing on big data analysis though AI and realized that it would be worth exploring this space for the sake of brushing up on cutting edge techniques while also learning how to better manage my investments. I don’t know if we have a discord finalized but if so I would love to join!
gtodoug - Your situation sounds similar to mine. 35 years in IT, but gave up programming 15 years ago to grow moldy in a managerial role. I never was a great coder, but I earned a good living at it for better than 25 years. I am retired and managing my investment portfolio on my own.
I bought Stefan’s book and started working through it, but then got impatient and took the low road towards trying to backtest with backtrader. I was torn between zipline and backtrader, but I thought I could do a proof of concept faster with backtrader. Today I see it’s really not very well supported, the original author has drifted away, the community forum site is broken, and I’m having some issues with the framework that make no sense to me, even after hours in the debugger.
So, today, back to the book and Readme pages. I have conda set up and I believe I’m pretty far along in the zipline setup, working remotely on a more powerful machine. Even with decades of experience in IT, albeit from the generation that required “specialists”, I am struggling just a little bit with all of these layers such as Anaconda and Docker. I am doing new things though, so it keeps my mind active, but I have serious doubts that I can climb this hill.
Hey all … i have a paid zoom room we can use to have a weekly meeting … so @Stefan not sure if that is ok with you … but i am willing to host a weekly meeting … or if anyone else is ok with it you can DM me or just reply to this post and i can send you a link
as far as time goes we can figure that out the more people we get to actually show up
Sounds like a good idea…just hard to get enough people through this forum. I only check this periodically, or get a summary email from the forrum.
There doesn’t seem to be lots of action here, so perhaps just start having a zoom meeting every two weeks…publish it here, run it for a few months and see what happens…my time zone is Pacific Standard Time(PST), and I can be available from 7am on.
