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17 hours

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Difficulty level

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  • This course aims at introducing the fundamental concepts of Reinforcement Learning (RL), and develop use cases for applications of RL for option valuation, trading, and asset management.
  • By the end of this course, students will be able to
  • - Use reinforcement learning to solve classical problems of Finance such as portfolio optimization, optimal trading, and option pricing and risk management.
  • - Practice on valuable examples such as famous Q-learning using financial problems.
  • - Apply their knowledge acquired in the course to a simple model for market dynamics that is obtained using reinforcement learning as the course project.
  • Prerequisites are the courses "Guided Tour of Machine Learning in Finance" and "Fundamentals of Machine Learning in Finance". Students are expected to know the lognormal process and how it can be simulated. Knowledge of option pricing is not assumed but desirable.
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Curriculum

MDP and Reinforcement Learning

Introduction to the Specialization

Prerequisites

Welcome to the Course

Introduction to Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning in Finance

MDP and RL: Decision Policies

MDP & RL: Value Function and Bellman Equation

MDP & RL: Value Iteration and Policy Iteration

MDP & RL: Action Value Function

Options and Option pricing

Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) Model

BSM Model and Risk

Discrete Time BSM Model

Discrete Time BSM Hedging and Pricing

Discrete Time BSM BS Limit

Jupyter Notebook FAQ

Hedged Monte Carlo: low variance derivative pricing with objective probabilities

MDP model for option pricing: Dynamic Programming Approach

MDP Formulation

Action-Value Function

Optimal Action From Q Function

Backward Recursion for Q Star

Basis Functions

Optimal Hedge With Monte-Carlo

Optimal Q Function With Monte-Carlo

Jupyter Notebook FAQ

QLBS: Q-Learner in the Black-Scholes(-Merton) Worlds

MDP model for option pricing - Reinforcement Learning approach

Week Introduction

Batch Reinforcement Learning

Stochastic Approximations

Q-Learning

Fitted Q-Iteration

Fitted Q-Iteration: the ?-basis

Fitted Q-Iteration at Work

RL Solution: Discussion and Examples

Jupyter Notebook FAQ

QLBS: Q-Learner in the Black-Scholes(-Merton) Worlds and The QLBS Learner Goes NuQLear

Course Project Reading: Global Portfolio Optimization

RL and INVERSE RL for Portfolio Stock Trading

Week Welcome Video

Introduction to RL for Trading

Portfolio Model

One Period Rewards

Forward and Inverse Optimisation

Reinforcement Learning for Portfolios

Entropy Regularized RL

RL Equations

RL and Inverse Reinforcement Learning Solutions

Course Summary

Jupyter Notebook FAQ

Multi-period trading via Convex Optimization

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    May 25, 2024
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    Learning Experience: implementing markov decision process via RL agent, deep q learning, actor-critic
    Faculty: Martha and Adam White were very knowledgeable and explained well updated and well structured with reading materials and a capstone project
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