Questions tagged [finance]
Field concerned with the allocation (investment) of assets and liabilities over space and time, often under conditions of risk or uncertainty.
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change target variable value to reflect better affordability
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I am working on a regression problem trying to predict affordability.
My dataset contains daily installments repaying a purchase in a form of contract. Essentially, a minimum daily rate the ...
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Legal issues with Machine Learning [closed]
I'm confused with why people claim that current legal system cannot handle any wrongdoings of algorithms that involve Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. The claim is that it is impossible ...
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"Up or down but not sideways" bimodal time series prediction - what is the best way to model it?
Say I have a time series (e.g. bitcoin price). I want to predict tomorrow's price, specifically tomorrow's % change in price from today. Let's say this is gaussian distributed, with the mean at 0%.
If ...
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Linear regression of times series data with heteroskedasticity
I am trying to find out if stock market movements, on average and in extreme conditions, affect gold prices. I am following the regression model proposed by Baur and McDermott (2010) which is given as:...
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Data Transformation for Machine Learning Regression Task
I am performing a ML regression task, using XGBoost Regressor. I am using financial time series data, namely the Close price of the EUR/USD exchange rate which I will transform into geometric log ...
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Algortihm for distributing volume in 1min stock intervals
Context: I have historical 1min prices for stocks, including premarket. However, when importing real-time data, the standard practice in the financial data industry is to give only OHLC (open, high, ...
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Interactive Filter based on logic to catrgorically color in lines on a bokeh graph?
I'm looking to make some bokeh line charts for a personal finance analysis, where the lines show the growth of money over time, with each line representing different combinations of life choices. I ...
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Regression and Classification, which is better in financial market price prediction?
I want to use a model to trade in finanical market.
which i have several features, like macd, rsi, or other common features.
and my target is to make a tradeable predict in every time point.
so my ...
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Steps to fit a Machine learning model for prediction of up and down market movement
I have around 5 years of data of an index containing many features on a daily basis. I want to classify whether the index will move up or down the next trading day (up or down movement is determined ...
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Optimize Yahoo Finance Code for Analysis [closed]
I am trying to analyze a number of companies using financial data I gathered from Yahoo Finance. I am also using the yfinance API to get some more details about the company using functions. Since I am ...
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How does the GAN based prediction in K. Zhang et al. (2018) improve performance?
In Stock Market Prediction Based on Generative Adversarial Network by K. Zhang et. al, the authors feed financial data (X0...Xt) into an LSTM to predict Xt+1.
Then, they evaluate whether the series (...
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How to cluster large time series?
I want to perform clustering on a dataset which has a few thousand stock prices time series, each one with daily prices for previous 5 years (a couple thousand days).
What would be the best approach ...
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How do I get Multiple CSV files (csv file names will be column names) from a folder to a pandas dataframe?
I think the title is enough for what is my problem here. I have 100 tickers in a folder. I got all csv files to one list. but I wanna see the tickers name which these are csv file names.
what should ...
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Should I concat multiple stock timeseries datasets into one?
I have several timeseries datasets of stock data, with fundamental indicators. I would like to build a model that selects stocks for buy and hold.
I understand that to perform this task I have two ...
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How to find the best fitting parametric distribution for an empirical dataset (stock returns)?
Given some real-valued empirical data (time series), I could convert it to a histogram to have an (non-parametric) empirical distribution of the data, but histograms are blocky and jagged.
Instead, I ...
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Matching financial reconciliation data / matching multiple rows based on column values
I'm working with financial reconciliation data and the ask is to train the algorithm to match transactions (that are otherwise manually matched if the existing application didn't because not all the ...
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Predicting financial data (choosing a model)
it is my first time doing something with financial data. I have a dataset with account numbers and some other information about each client (some clients span more than one row since we have info for ...
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Correcting high AR(1) coefficients in dynamic Gordon model
I have just finished my thesis on a heterogeneous dividend expectations model applied to the COVID-19 crisis! However after receiving some feedback there is one last issue I want to resolve. I'm using ...
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What's the best way to do classification basing on two given datasets (annual data and daily data)?
I want to do binary-classification basing on two given dataset, one is annual statistical data of a company and has the label I should be able to predict like this:
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How to measure Covid impact by analysing credit card transaction of customer
I Want to know how can I identify that is the customer is in financial distress due to the COVID situation using its credit card transactions.
I have a daily transaction of customers till current ...
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Lasso stricter with more data
I am currently analyzing investment strategies, and have implemented a backtest accordingly. This essentially means that I predict returns each month by using all prior historical data. Consequently, ...
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Financial Time Series and Machine Learning question
I am working on a Machine Learning project applied to a financial time series.
Initially, I grabbed features (open, high, low, close) and implemented a Random Forest.
One of the subsequent tasks ...
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Will flattening multivariate time series data before clustering make the results meaningless?
I have a large number of financial time series that I wish to do cluster analysis on. Each time series has the same length and spans multiple years of daily data (returns, volatility, etc.). As part ...
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Image classification on stock data
I am trying to classify stock images into 4 categories:
Category 1: Image patterns which gives more than 10% profit next 3
day.
Category 2: Image patterns which gives less than 10% profit but
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Corpus suggestion for financial domain [closed]
I am looking for a financial corpus or any form of publicly available financial texts which is replete with technical terms and acronyms.
Any suggestion is appreciated.
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What is the approx minimum size of dataset required to build 90% correct model?
I am working with a financial dataset size which is around 3000. I have attempted the supervised-learning regression techniques and not able to go beyond 70% accuracy.
Features: 10
Data size:3700
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Understandable and explainable machine learning model
I want to find formula for best financial portfolio.
Inputs: Historical fundamental data for last 15 years. For 3000 companies for every quatal we have things like ...
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Bootstrapped curves and machine learning
I am exploring machine learning models to employ for my use case as described below and would appreciate some expertise
Effectively I have bootstrapped bond prices to derive a zero coupon curve for ...
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Splitting training and test set with financial data
I am using trees algorithms (decision tree, random forest and XGBoost) to forecast the sign of the returns in the stock market (classification).
I am using this article as a reference:
http://...
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How do I find all the drastic changes in the stock and fetch news for those days of the stock?
I am analyzing MindTree company's stocks as an internship project using python pandas and have been given the task to find all the drastic changes by looking at the produced plot for the stock and ...
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May I use the same data in several time series intervals?
I am playing with RNNs / LTSMs for a classification task in predicting financial data.
I have a time-series going many years back, and are planning to divide it into a number of shorter time-...
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LSTM for financial data
I'm using LSTM to predict financial data. As input data I use log returns and I want to predict the next day market movement. Do I need to retrain the ANN every day in order to keep time consistency ...
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How is data science applied in investment banking?
What do data scientists do at investment banks? What tools are they using? What kind of analysis are they doing? Why are they doing it? Etc.
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Binary Classification Probabilities
I'm using keras in R to predict financial time series. I guess that ANN converges.
But when I do predictions I can see that probabilities don't sum up to 1
I'm using ...
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Predict the loss amount for insurance policies using the historical trends and features?
Anyone who has worked with insurance policy datasets, please guide me to an appropriate dataset for this problem .
Also, what is this 'loss amount' and what model will be appropriate for it?
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Can LSTM Predict The Next Few Days Of Stock Price?
I have searched many websites and forums describing stock price forecast using LSTM.
They shared two things in common: one is that all the sources make predictions with same set of data and none of ...
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Structure the dataset for financial machine learning
I am trying to construct a dataset to apply MLP in forecasting financial returns. The main idea is that I want to predict future equity returns (1 month ahead, but the horizon can vary, just to give ...
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Any tool that can help on manually label a time series data please?
i am working with a 10 years weekly financial time series data set, which has the standard format date open high low close volume.
i would like to manually label (classify) the data set with label/...
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Are there any APIs for financial pattern recognition? [closed]
I have seen this question on the site, however it is asking for the techniques that can be used for implementation. The thing I want to know is that, on the other hand, if are there any APIs or ...
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Preprocess list data
I got question about preparation data for my ML algorithm.
Raw data has format similar to:
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how many rows have values from the same columns pandas
I have a df with many columns that represent the market cap of companies that compose an index. The index of the dataframe is dates. Before the company enters the index or after it leaves it, the ...
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Constructing graph of crypto financial instruments 2016-2017
Set of financial instruments represent the set of vertices of the graph. For any pair of vertices $i$ and $j$, an edge connecting them is added to the graph if the corresponding correlation ...
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Best way to store financial data together with news
My question is if there is a DBMS that allows storing financial data (i.e. timestamp+value) together with small text fragments.
These small fragments will not be very long, but it might help an ...
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Reinforcement Learning algorithm for Optimized Trade Execution
My question deals with the algorithm described in the paper:
Reinforcement Learning for Optimized Trade Execution
This paper uses reinforcement learning technique to deal with the problem of ...
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Find a Default Assumption for a series of Forecasted Loans
Your help would be appreciated!
I'm trying to calculate the net returns of a series loans, at different stages of completion. I've categorised the loans into open loans (repaying & late loans) ...
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Understanding portfolio-level risk models
I have a tremendous amount of experience training supervised machine learning models. However, I recently became a data scientist at a small financial services company, and I've been asked to build ...
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Deep Learning Project to Predict Stock Prices
So I have a background in computer programming and a little in machine learning in general. What I would like to do is create a fun project in A.I. with deep learning.
I have a dataset that has a ...
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Recommendations for algorithm
I have a very large dataset consisting of approximately 15,000 rows of survey data. The surveys are quantitative summaries of interviews with investors regarding their rankings of financial asset ...
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Difference between business and financial and data analyst
Can anyone please tell me whats the difference between
Business analyst
Financial analyst
Data analyst
And what should one need to learn in order to achieve either of these profile.
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Finding levels in an array of floats
Before anybody asks please let me confirm this question is related to trading technical analysis.
The problem is quite simple, but I lack the scientific background required to solve it.
Data comes ...
