Intro to Machine Learning in Less Than 50 Lines of Code Quant News

Machine learning is increasing in popularity and is a buzzword in the quantitative finance community. After all, it is a branch of artificial intelligence where algorithms and mathematical models are used to progressively improve performance on a specific task. Today we will be covering the basic framework of coding out a machine learning algorithm on FXCM's CFD index, SPX500. This article is based on the free course Introduction to Machine Learning by QuantInsti. The machine learning algorithm in this article will learn from basic open and close data.