{ "item_title" : "Machine Learning for Systematic Trading", "item_author" : [" Justin Lewis "], "item_description" : "Machine learning has transformed algorithmic trading from a niche quantitative discipline into a powerful, data-driven approach used across global financial markets. Yet most traders and data scientists quickly discover a difficult truth: building predictive models is easy, but turning them into profitable, stable, real-world trading systems is far more complex.This book bridges that gap.Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading provides a complete, end-to-end framework for designing, building, and deploying systematic trading strategies using Python. It goes far beyond theory and isolated algorithms, focusing instead on the full trading pipeline, how raw financial data becomes structured signals, how models generate predictions, and how those predictions are transformed into real trading decisions under realistic market conditions.Inside this book, you will gain a structured understanding of how professional quantitative strategies are developed in practice. You will learn how to work with market, fundamental, and alternative datasets including price data, financial statements, news, and other non-traditional sources that influence modern markets. You will also discover how to engineer meaningful features, construct alpha factors, and evaluate their predictive strength using advanced statistical techniques.The book walks you step by step through the machine learning workflow for trading, including supervised learning for return prediction, unsupervised learning for pattern discovery, and reinforcement learning concepts for adaptive decision systems. You will see how linear models, tree-based ensembles, and deep learning architectures can be applied to financial time series, and how each approach behaves under real trading constraints.A major strength of this book is its focus on practical implementation. You will not only understand how models are built, but also how they are tested and validated using professional backtesting frameworks. Tools such as Zipline, Backtrader, pandas, NumPy, and Pyfolio are used to simulate realistic trading environments, evaluate strategy performance, and measure risk in a disciplined way.You will also learn how to transform model outputs into actionable trading strategies, including long/short and market-neutral portfolios. The book explains how position sizing, capital allocation, and risk management work together to determine whether a strategy survives in live markets or fails under pressure.Another critical area covered is signal evaluation and feature importance. You will learn how to assess whether a predictive signal truly carries informational value or whether it is the result of noise, overfitting, or hidden bias. Techniques such as SHAP values and Alphalens analysis are used to separate meaningful alpha from misleading correlations.As you progress, you will also explore more advanced topics such as gradient boosting for financial prediction, clustering methods for market segmentation, neural networks for time series modeling, and natural language processing for extracting signals from news and text data. Alternative data sources, including unstructured datasets, are introduced to show how modern trading systems extend beyond traditional price-based analysis.However, building a model is only part of the challenge. This book emphasizes the complete lifecycle of a trading system, including backtesting, performance evaluation, risk measurement, and system validation. You will understand how to avoid common backtesting mistakes, how to design reliable evaluation workflows, and how to ensure that results remain meaningful when exposed to real market conditions.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/202/9798182024686_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "17.99", "online_price" : "17.99", "our_price" : "17.99", "club_price" : "17.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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