Tag: finance

  • A Market-Neutral Strategy

    A Market-Neutral Strategy

    The work aims to solve the problem of Markowitz portfolio optimization for a one-year investment horizon through the pairs trading cointegrated strategy. Market-neutral trading strategies seek to generate returns independent of market swings to achieve a zero beta against its relevant market index. Statistical arbitrage (SA), pairs trading, and APO signals are analyzed. The study…

  • Real-Time Stock Sentiment Analysis w/ NLP Web Scraping

    Real-Time Stock Sentiment Analysis w/ NLP Web Scraping

    Stock sentiment analysis is gaining popularity as a technique to understand public opinions on specific assets. This study uses NLP web scraping in Python to extract stock sentiments from financial news headlines on FinViz. The sentiment analysis can help determine investor opinions and potential impacts on stock prices, though it is not a standalone predictor.

  • Anomaly Detection using the Isolation Forest Algorithm

    Anomaly Detection using the Isolation Forest Algorithm

    The post describes the application of Isolation Forest, an unsupervised anomaly detection algorithm, to identify abnormal patterns in financial and taxi ride data. The challenge is to accurately distinguish normal and abnormal data points for fraud detection, fault diagnosis, and outlier identification. Using real-world datasets of financial transactions and NYC taxi rides, the algorithm successfully…

  • NVIDIA Rolling Volatility: GARCH & XGBoost

    NVIDIA Rolling Volatility: GARCH & XGBoost

    This post examines the prediction of NVIDIA stock volatility using two models: the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) and the Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost). Both models are compared in terms of MSE and MAPE. The post discovers that the machine learning-based XGBoost model outperforms the GARCH model in NVDA volatility forecasting, showing the effectiveness of…

  • EUR/USD Forecast: Prophet vs JPM

    EUR/USD Forecast: Prophet vs JPM

    JP Morgan (JPM) analysis predicts the EUR/USD exchange rate to hold at 1.08 in December 2023, while ING forecasts suggest rates of $1.00 throughout 2023 and $1.02 in Q1 2024, rising to $1.10 by Q4 2024. Using the FB Prophet model, predictions show a hold at 1.08 +/- 0.07 in December 2023, aligning with JPM’s…

  • Risk-Aware Strategies for DCA Investors

    Risk-Aware Strategies for DCA Investors

    Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) is an investment approach that involves investing a fixed amount regularly, regardless of market price. It offers benefits such as risk reduction and market downturn resilience. It’s useful for beginners and can be combined with other strategies for a disciplined investment approach. References include Investopedia and Yahoo Finance.

  • GPT & DeepLake NLP: Amazon Financial Statements

    GPT & DeepLake NLP: Amazon Financial Statements

    The post outlines the implementation of an AI-powered chatbot using NLP to process and analyze financial data from Amazon’s financial statements. The tool employs LlamaIndex and DeepLake to answer queries, summarize financial information, and analyze trends. This approach enhances the efficiency of data analysis, making it a valuable resource for finance and banking professionals.

  • Top 6 Reliability/Risk Engineering Learnings

    Top 6 Reliability/Risk Engineering Learnings

    The content provides a review of Eric Marsden’s e-learning Python courseware on risk engineering, loss prevention and safety management. It includes discussions of various topics such as the failure of light bulbs, electronic components, large computing facility maintenance, and oil field pumps. The content also delves into stock market risk analysis like Value at Risk…

  • JPM Breakouts: Auto ARIMA, FFT, LSTM & Stock Indicators

    JPM Breakouts: Auto ARIMA, FFT, LSTM & Stock Indicators

    The post discusses predicting JPM stock prices for 2022-2023 using several predictive models like ARIMA, FFT, LSTM, and Technical Trading Indicators (TTIs) such as EMA, RSI, OBV, and MCAD. The ARIMA model used historical data, while the partial spectral decompositions of stock prices served as features for the FFT model. TTIs were calculated to validate…

  • Post-SVB Risk Aware Investing

    Post-SVB Risk Aware Investing

    The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and its repercussions have prompted a reevaluation of risk-aware investing in the US financial sector. The crisis has exposed the vulnerability of banks invested in long-term fixed income assets, highlighting the importance of diversification and risk management. Market indicators suggest continued volatility and uncertainty, urging investors to exercise…

  • LSTM Price Predictions of 4 Tech Stocks

    LSTM Price Predictions of 4 Tech Stocks

    The given content explains the process of using Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Sequential model for comparing the risk/return of four major tech stocks: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, considering the tech scenario in 2023. The analysis involves examining stock price patterns, their correlations, risk-return assessment, and predicting stock prices using…

  • XOM SMA-EMA-RSI Golden Crosses ’22

    XOM SMA-EMA-RSI Golden Crosses ’22

    Featured Photo by Johannes Plenio on Pexels. Today we will discuss the XOM stock using most basic technical trading indicators (TTIs) within the Python library ta-lib. Recall that this library is widely used by algo traders requiring to perform technical analysis of financial market data. It includes 150+ indicators such as ADX, MACD, RSI, Stochastic,…

  • Cloud-Native Tech Autumn 2022 Fair

    Cloud-Native Tech Autumn 2022 Fair

    Let’s dive deeper into the cloud-native tech trends and features to follow in Q4 2022 and beyond. Contents: Markets Services Serverless Cybersecurity DevSecOps ML/AI/IoT Use-Cases Events Training Explore More Infographic

  • Are Blue Chips Perfect for This Bear Market?

    12 High-Yield Blue-Chips That Are Perfect For This Bear Market TradingView Technical Analysis charts, trends, forecasts, oscillators, bias, volatility, risk management

  • OXY Stock Technical Analysis 17 May 2022

    OXY Stock Technical Analysis 17 May 2022 Occidental Petroleum Is About To Crush Its Debt And Own The House – debt load to fall by nearly $20B in the coming year.

  • ML/AI Regression for Stock Prediction – AAPL Use Case

    1. Install Yahoo finance library 2. Call all dependencies that we will use for this exercise  3. Define the ticker you will use 4. Let’s look at the data table 5. Data Exploration Phase 6. Data Preparation, Pre-Processing & Manipulation 7. Apply Linear Regression 8. Perform ML QC Analysis 9. Final Output