CS7646 Summer 2017

Overview

You are on the page for information specific to the Summer 2017 session of this course. Go here (Machine_Learning_for_Trading_Course) for overall course policies.

Specific On-Campus Information

• Any on-campus deviations (related to office hours, exams, lecture times/topics/notes) can be found here: CS7646_Summer_2017_ATL

2017 Summer Schedule (OMS)

This is a link to the schedule for the online (OMS) session of the course. The project deadlines are the same for the on campus session.

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Assignments & Grading

Projects (62%)

• [MC1-Project-1: Assess portfolio] 5% (easy)
• [MC3-Project-1: Implement and assess a regression learner using decision trees and random forests] 15% (hard)
• [MC2-Project-1: Build a market simulator] 15% (moderate)
• [MC3-Project-2: Q-learning maze navigation] 10% (easy)
• Trading Strategy Learner 17% (very hard)
  • For this project you will implement a machine learning based trading system. You can choose whether you want to use a decision-tree based approach or a Q-learning based approach. This project is being reformulated, but you can follow the links below to previous versions of these two projects to get a feel for what the requirements will be:
  • [MC3-Project-3: Implement a "manual" quant strategy, then do it with decision tree classification]
  • [MC3-Project-4: Q-learning trader]

Homework (5%):

• [MC3-Homework-1: Generate datasets that defeat learners] 5%

Exams (30%)

• Midterm Study Guide
• Exam 2 Study Guide
• Midterm 15%
• Final 15%

Class participation (3%)

• Class participation is determined by activity on piazza.

Thresholds

• A: 90% and above
• B: 80% and above
• C: 70% and above
• D: 60% and above
• F: below 60%

These are hard boundaries (we round down).