From shortcircuitsandinfiniteloops.blogspot.com
Right around the time you get your first basic regression or classification model going, it will at least cross your mind. The vast piles of time series data, coupled with the possibility of retiring young has the irresistible pull of finding an old treasure map in your grandfather’s attic. How can you NOT think about it? Can you use machine learning to predict the market?
I had to at least try. Here’s what I did, and what I learned.
The ApproachThere are plenty of small scales tutorials on the web that are a great place to start. They show you how to pull down the history of a stock, perhaps calculate a few indicators, and feed it to a regression algorithm and try to predict the next day’s value. Alternatively, they use a classifier to predict whether the stock will rise or fall, without predicting a value.