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Let me recommend you an udacity course instead. This is hands down the best course I've ever taken in my life: AI for Trading https://www.udacity.com/course/ai

by smabie 7y ago

Let me recommend you an udacity course instead. This is hands down the best course I've ever taken in my life: AI for Trading https://www.udacity.com/course/ai-for-trading--nd880 https://www.udacity.com/course/ai-for-trading--nd880 Includes an introduction to finance/markets, and goes into strategies, multi-factor models, and deep learning. Great projects too!

vba 7y ago
I haven’t taken it, but what made it so great. Do you/can you apply what you’ve learnt?
- smabie 7y ago
  Yeah, totally. If you're talking professionally, it helped me make the transition from a pure dev role at a financial firm to a quantitative front-end role. If you're talking about personal projects, it helps a lot if you want to develop your own quantitative trading strategies. I've been using https://www.quantopian.com/ https://www.quantopian.com/ to develop strategies and am currently trying to get on the board for their contest https://www.quantopian.com/contest https://www.quantopian.com/contest. I'm hoping to try and get an allocation from them. They currently manage somewhere around a couple hundred millions dollars and allocate money to various algorithms that win the context, allowing you to net a percentage of profits of the strategy.
chrisatumd 7y ago
It looked interesting - is it really $400 a month for access to the course, or is there some other way to just take the course without some kind of certificate?
- smabie 7y ago
  I'm not sure, but I took really good notes (along with good pictures from the videos). I have them in org and html: https://github.com/smabie/udacity-AI-trading-notes https://github.com/smabie/udacity-AI-trading-notes
mettamage 7y ago
Wait, how did you make both notes in org and HTML? Can you write org mode notes and compile them to HTML? Is that it? Or did you really write it twice? (I've never used Emacs)
- fredoliveira 7y ago
  Org makes it very easy to export to multiple formats (including HTML). Definitely worth exploring, and definitely worth using emacs for :-)
tasubotadas 7y ago
I've taken it but I wouldn't recommend it - it was pretty shallow. That guy used to have a more complete version of the course on Coursera. I believe that it became a specialization.
- nightski 7y ago
  That was my fear. Looks like an OK course but I'd expect some pretty outstanding quality for $400 a month! That's crazy pricing (more than an ivy league credit hour am I right?).

by smabie 7y ago

vba 7y ago

I haven’t taken it, but what made it so great. Do you/can you apply what you’ve learnt?

smabie 7y ago
Yeah, totally. If you're talking professionally, it helped me make the transition from a pure dev role at a financial firm to a quantitative front-end role. If you're talking about personal projects, it helps a lot if you want to develop your own quantitative trading strategies. I've been using https://www.quantopian.com/ https://www.quantopian.com/ to develop strategies and am currently trying to get on the board for their contest https://www.quantopian.com/contest https://www.quantopian.com/contest. I'm hoping to try and get an allocation from them. They currently manage somewhere around a couple hundred millions dollars and allocate money to various algorithms that win the context, allowing you to net a percentage of profits of the strategy.

chrisatumd 7y ago

It looked interesting - is it really $400 a month for access to the course, or is there some other way to just take the course without some kind of certificate?

smabie 7y ago
I'm not sure, but I took really good notes (along with good pictures from the videos). I have them in org and html: https://github.com/smabie/udacity-AI-trading-notes https://github.com/smabie/udacity-AI-trading-notes

mettamage 7y ago

Wait, how did you make both notes in org and HTML? Can you write org mode notes and compile them to HTML? Is that it? Or did you really write it twice? (I've never used Emacs)

fredoliveira 7y ago
Org makes it very easy to export to multiple formats (including HTML). Definitely worth exploring, and definitely worth using emacs for :-)

tasubotadas 7y ago

I've taken it but I wouldn't recommend it - it was pretty shallow. That guy used to have a more complete version of the course on Coursera. I believe that it became a specialization.

nightski 7y ago
That was my fear. Looks like an OK course but I'd expect some pretty outstanding quality for $400 a month! That's crazy pricing (more than an ivy league credit hour am I right?).