Advances in Financial Machine Learning

“In his new book Advances in Financial Machine Learning, noted financial scholar Marcos López de Prado strikes a well-aimed karate chop at the naive and often statistically overfit techniques that are so prevalent in the financial world today.  He points out that not only are business-as-usual approaches largely impotent in today’s high-tech finance, but in many cases they are actually prone to lose money.  But López de Prado does more than just expose the mathematical and statistical sins of the finance world.  Instead, he offers a technically sound roadmap for finance professionals to join the wave of machine learning.  What is particularly refreshing is the author’s empirical approach ― his focus is on real-world data analysis, not on purely theoretical methods that may look pretty on paper but which in many cases are largely ineffective in practice. The book is geared to finance professionals who are already familiar with statistical data analysis techniques, but it is well worth the effort for those who want to do real state-of-the-art work in the field.”
―Dr. David H. Bailey, former Complex Systems Lead, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Co-discoverer of the BBP spigot algorithm