Deep Learning for Trading
This chapter kicks off Part 4, which covers how several deep learning (DL) modeling techniques can be useful for investment and trading. DL has achieved numerous breakthroughs in many domains, ranging from image and speech recognition to robotics and intelligent agents that have drawn widespread attention and revived large-scale research into artificial intelligence (AI). The expectations are high that the rapid development will continue and many more solutions to difficult practical problems will emerge.
In this chapter, we will present feedforward neural networks to introduce key elements of working with neural networks relevant to the various DL architectures covered in the following chapters. More specifically, we will demonstrate how to train large models efficiently using the backpropagation algorithm and manage the risks of overfitting. We will also show how to use the popular TensorFlow 2 and PyTorch frameworks, which we will leverage throughout...