Machine Learning for Finance in Python

In this chapter, we will learn how machine learning can be used in finance. We will also explore some stock data, and prepare it for machine learning algorithms. Finally, we will fit our first machine learning model -- a linear model, in order to predict future price changes of stocks.

Learn how to use tree-based machine learning models to predict future values of a stock's price, as well as how to use forest-based machine learning methods for regression and feature selection.

We will learn how to normalize and scale data for use in KNN and neural network methods. Then we will learn how to use KNN and neural network regression to predict the future values of a stock's price (or any other regression problem).

In this chapter, you'll learn how to use modern portfolio theory (MPT) and the Sharpe ratio to plot and find optimal stock portfolios. You'll also use machine learning to predict the best portfolios. Finally, you'll evaluate performance of the ML-predicted portfolios.