MLFinLab is an open source package based on the research of Dr Marcos Lopez de Prado in his new book Advances in Financial Machine Learning. This implementation started out as a spring board for a research project in the Masters in Financial Engineering programme at WorldQuant University and has grown into a mini research group called Hudson and Thames Quantitative Research (not affiliated with the university).
The following is the online documentation for the package: read-the-docs.
As most of you know, getting through the first 3 chapters of the book is challenging as it relies on HFT data to create the new financial data structures. Sourcing the HFT data is very difficult and thus we have resorted to purchasing the full history of S&P500 Emini futures tick data from TickData LLC.
We are not affiliated with TickData in any way but would like to recommend others to make use of their service. The full history cost us about $750 and is worth every penny. They have really done a great job at cleaning the data and providing it in a user friendly manner.
TickData does offer about 20 days worth of raw tick data which can be sourced from their website link.
For those of you interested in working with a two years of sample tick, volume, and dollar bars, it is provided for in the research repo..
You should be able to work on a few implementations of the code with this set.
Part 4: Useful Financial Features
- Working on Chapter 19: Microstructural Features (Alex Proskurin)
- Working on Chapter 18: Entropy Features (Alex Proskurin)
- Working on Chapter 17: Structural Breaks (Alex Proskurin)
Part 3: Backtesting
- Done Chapter 16: Asset Allocation
- Done Chapter 10: Bet Sizing
Part 2: Modelling
- Done Chapter 8: Feature Importance
- Done Chapter 7: Cross-Validation
- Done Chapter 6: Ensemble Methods (Sequential Bootstrap Ensemble)
Part 1: Data Analysis
- Done Chapter 5: Fractional Differentiation
- Done Chapter 4: Sample Weights
- Done Chapter 3: Labeling
- Done Chapter 2: Data Structures
- Purchased high quality raw tick data.
- Email us if you would like a sample of the standard bars.
Recommended versions:
- Anaconda 3
- Python 3.6
The package can be installed from the PyPi index via the console:
- Launch the terminal and run:
pip install mlfinlab
Clone the package repo to your local machine then follow the steps below.
- Make sure you install the latest version of the Anaconda 3 distribution. To do this you can follow the install and update instructions found on this link: https://www.anaconda.com/download/#mac
- Launch a terminal
- Create a New Conda Environment. From terminal:
conda create -n <env name> python=3.6 anacondaaccept all the requests to install. - Now activate the environment with
source activate <env name>. - From Terminal: go to the directory where you have saved the file, example: cd Desktop/mlfinlab/.
- Install Python requirements, by running the command:
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Download and install the latest version of Anaconda 3
- Launch Anaconda Navigator
- Click Environments, choose an environment name, select Python 3.6, and click Create
- Click Home, browse to your new environment, and click Install under Jupyter Notebook
- Launch Anaconda Prompt and activate the environment:
conda activate <env name> - From Anaconda Prompt: go to the directory where you have saved the file, example: cd Desktop/mlfinlab/.
- Install Python requirements, by running the command:
pip install -r requirements.txt
On your local machine open the terminal and cd into the working dir.
- Code style checks:
./pylint - Unit tests:
python -m unittest discover - Code coverage:
bash coverage
BlackArbsCEO has a great repo based on de Prado's research. It covers many of the questions at the back of every chapter and was the first source on Github to do so. It has also been a good source of inspiration for our research.
At the moment the project is still rather small and thus I would recommend getting in touch with us over email so that we can further discuss the areas of contribution that interest you the most. We have a slack channel where we all communicate.
For now you can get hold us at: [email protected]
Looking forward to hearing from you!
This project is licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.