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Industry News: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for December 26, 2017
Industry NewsNever Mind Bitcoin. China Loves AI Stocks
...ofit estimates. And yet it’s one of the hottest stocks in China, gaining 117 percent this year as of Dec. 18, thanks to the latest investment craze sweeping the country’s $7.5 trillion equity…

Industry News: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence News November 20, 2017
Industry NewsAI & ML news covering: Overvalued Markets, crypto-currencies, Quantamental funds, Social Sentiment Deceptions, Hiring of Buy-Side Quantitative Trading, ...

Improving A Trading Strategy
BlogTD Sequential is a technical indicator for stock trading developed by Thomas R. DeMark in the 1990s. It uses bar plot of stocks to generate trading signals. ... Several elements could be modified in this strategy. Whether to include the countdown stage, the choice of the number of bars in the setup stage and countdown stage, the parameters that help to decide when to exit and the size of the trade will affect strategy performance. In addition, we could use information other than price to decide whether the signal should be traded.

Social Sentiment in Trading Algorithms
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsBloomberg recently wrote that “It’s no secret that hedge fund managers are always looking for new sources of data that will help them in their never-ending quest to beat the market.” (1) One of the most interesting new sources of data is social sentiment.

Finding Novel Ways to Trade on Sentiment Data
Industry News“Everyone is looking into alternative data sets, sometimes without really understanding their value,” says Dr. Arun Verma, Ph.D.,

Funds Face ‘Alt’ Data Challenge
Industry NewsAlthough alternative data sets are helping funds with systematic investment strategies, those funds that employ discretionary strategies are finding it harder to separate the new trading signals from the noise.