Evolutionary Computation for Live Trading Systems

Download or read book Evolutionary Computation for Live Trading Systems written by Garnett Wilson and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the how genetic programming can be utilized to create adaptive trading systems that outperform the market. Developers of the a high-performing proprietary trading algorithm, Zenquant, the authors explain the inputs, analysis, and testing methodologies required to develop a profitable algorithmic trading system. Genetic programming, the foundation of the author’s approach, is a branch of artificial intelligence derived from the study of evolutionary systems and is particularly well suited to the financial markets. The trading systems they develop adapt to changes in market behavior, producing different trading signals as markets evolve. In essence, their systems continually learn from market behavior and generate new trading rules in accordance with the growth in market knowledge. The author’s Zenquant system, which is designed for short-term trading, generated an overall stock market gain of 17% in 2011 and individual sector gains as high as 42%. While they don’t reveal the precise algorithms that underlie the Zenquant system, they explain how they developed the algorithm, giving traders the knowledge to apply genetic programming to create their own adaptive trading systems.