Artificial Intelligence for Trading

I loved the program. The first 3 projects were very basic, but everything after project 4 was great. You get introduced to alpha research, portfolio optimization and backtesting. In some of the projects you use Zipline, Quantopian’s open source library. While of course, it’s not expected for them to provide trading strategies to you, the applications of AI to trading seem relevant. You use neural networks, NLP, and random forests, among other models, in ways that are appliable to real trading research. Most of the instructors from Udacity do a very good job explaining the courses concepts, both theory and programming. The first 3 projects touch some subjects very briefly and without much depth, which was a bit disappointing, but understandable because of the breath of knowledge required for Quantitative Trading. The pace after project 4 picks up considerably though, and you get a challenging sequence with many subjects and approaches that were new for me, as well as suggestions to deepen your knowledge. The instructors they brought from the industry were excellent too.

So far, the program is going very well. I would have preferred a greater depth in the application of Machine Learning from the beginning (due to my intermediate level in that field). However, I understand that not all students have the same level and that they need some training, especially in financial matters. Except for that detail, I like how the Nanodegree is structured.

I have learnt a lot so far on the approach and principles to Momentum Trading. The step wise approach in the implementation is educational and rewarding. I am also very appreciative of the support and the insight provided by my mentor.

I received a lot of great advice from Udacity reviewers which I haven’t arranged a time to continue to organize project portfolio video demo with the reviews. And I should write each project a readme to demonstrate what I know and speak for each project, I work through. It matched my need in the part of the healing of my heart and soul like a puppy, sleep, meditation and Godzilla and the machine learning section give me a lot of lift. It’s about Thanksgiving, I want to tell Udacity thank you for guiding me to enroll this Nanodegree program :D! It is super worth this journey. I have a great life during this Nanodegree program.

So far so good. I like especially the practice parts. I think it should be like 50% theory and 50% practice each in small iterations. There are other nanodegrees where in my opinion there is not enough practice. But for this nanodegree it is quite good in that regard.

Some of it was confusing regarding what the quiz and test questions were asking for and subject to interpretation; a source of frustration. However, overall, it is one of the best put together and well designed courses out there.