Machine Learning with Python

Project Overview

This project sought to explore the use of machine learning algorithms to analyze financial data on Quantopian (https://www.quantopian.com/), an online platform used to develop investment algorithms with the python programming language. Quantopian was used the conduct experimental studies using these machine learning algorithms, with the goal of designing a strategy that is able to predict the movement of financial data with a reasonable accuracy rate.

Objectives

• Explore the Quantopian platform
• Get familiar with Python programming on the Quantopian platform
• Research a few machine learning algorithms in Pythons scikit-learn package
• Implement a strategy that is able to predict the movement of financial data with reasonable accuracy

Research Questions

• What is Machine Learning?
• What trading strategies currently exist?
• Can these trading strategies be used to determine trading decisions algorithmically?
• Can machine learning improve these trading algorithms?
• What are general predictions that can be made about stock trends?