Support Vector Machines: A Guide for Beginners - QuantStart

Check out my ebook on quant trading where I teach you how to build profitable systematic trading strategies with Python tools, from scratch. Take a look at my new ebook on advanced trading strategies using time series analysis, machine learning and Bayesian statistics, with Python and R. Hi! My name is Mike and I'm the guy behind QuantStart.com. I used to work in a hedge fund as a quantitative trading developer in London. Now I research, develop, backtest and implement my own intraday algorithmic trading strategies using C and Python. Quantocracy is one of the leading quant link aggregator sites. In this guide I want to introduce you to an extremely powerful machine learning technique known as the Support Vector Machine (SVM). It is one of the best "out of the box" supervised classification techniques.