Profiting from Python & Machine Learning in the Financial Markets

I finally beat the S&P 500 by 10%. This might not sound like much but when we're dealing with large amounts of capital and with good liquidity, the profits are pretty sweet for a hedge fund. More aggressive approaches have resulted in much higher returns. It all started after I read a paper by Gur Huberman titled "Contagious Speculation and a Cure for Cancer: A Non-Event that Made Stock Prices Soar," (with Tomer Regev, Journal of Finance, February 2001, Vol. "A Sunday New York Times article on a potential development of new cancer-curing drugs caused EntreMed's stock price to rise from 12.063 at the Friday close, to open at 85 and close near 52 on Monday. It closed above 30 in the three following weeks. The enthusiasm spilled over to other biotechnology stocks. The potential breakthrough in cancer research already had been reported, however, in the journal Nature, and in various popular newspapers including the Times! Thus, enthusiastic public attention induced a permanent rise in share prices, even though no genuinely new information had been presented."