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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Reinforcement Learning for Trading Strategies by New York Institute of Finance

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    About the Course

    In the final course from the Machine Learning for Trading specialization, you will be introduced to reinforcement learning (RL) and the benefits
    of using reinforcement learning in trading strategies. You will learn how RL has been integrated with neural networks and review LSTMs and
    how they can be applied to time series data. By the end of the course, you will be able to build trading strategies using reinforcement learning,
    differentiate between actor-based policies and value-based policies, and incorporate RL into a momentum trading strategy. To be successful in
    this course, you should have advanced competency in Python programming and familiarity with pertinent libraries for machi...
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    Top reviews

    MS

    Mar 6, 2020

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    It was easy to follow but not easy. I learned a lot and I now have the confidence to implement Reinforcement learning to my own FX trading strategies. Thank you so much.

    RA

    Feb 3, 2021

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    After the first two courses, this one grabs you into the reinforcement learning spectrum. This topic has been revealing to me and its applications to trading

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    By Red R

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    Nov 10, 2022

    Labs Malfunction

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    Apr 8, 2023

    你对得起我们吗?日内瓦退钱

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    By Antony J

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    Nov 24, 2020

    It's an exceptionally difficult task to predict financial time series, and even harder to design an automated trading methodology that can take into account those forecasts while monitoring the trading environment (trading costs, other traders, sentiment). This final course is an ambitious attempt to expose learners to the most advanced concepts in the field.

    To be able to comprehend the Reinforcement Learning materials appears to require expertise in deep learning far beyond sequential models, and also appears to need the volume and integrity of data only available to high-frequency trading firms. Thumbs up to the specialization curators for providing a non-trivial introduction.

    The module that rescued the course (and lifted my rating to 5 stars) was the AutoML demonstration. I was reassured to see that Gradient Boosted Trees were chosen as the appropriate methodology, as this is what I have casually observed as being the most effective methodology in use today for end-of-day data problems. Looks like an amazing product, if you have the money!

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    By Peter S

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    May 20, 2021

    Succinct and great explanation of deep reinforcement learning methods with amazing demo lab scripts

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    By lobna r

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    Sep 11, 2024

    It's Intensive and Inclusive, but please make sure all labs work smoothly.

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    By Jair R

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    Jun 7, 2020

    This content really is ahead of the Business As Usual.

    Congrats!

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    By Sridhar S

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    Mar 9, 2021

    Need more time to finish the ML model

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    By Edgar C C

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    Feb 23, 2021

    Muy buen curso.!

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    By 李艳丹

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    Mar 25, 2020

    perfect!

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    By Martin L

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    Jul 14, 2021

    Provide the idea and method of RL for trading, but seems like less practice knowledge for the trading. hope can add more detail for for the trading build up. overall the course are good.

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    By Макс К

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    Oct 4, 2020

    Great course, exactly what I was looking for! But there were some technical difficulties on practical tasks ...

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    By Gustav K F Y

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    Jul 2, 2022

    I look forward to examples of integration of decision based on reinforcement learning and algo-trading logic

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    By RENATO V M S

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    Jul 13, 2021

    A touhg and very advanced course, with an amazing Google Cloud Platform !!!!

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    By Deleted A

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    Apr 16, 2020

    Nice with the RL classes, it is a bit random.

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    By Jakub K

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    Aug 28, 2020

    I learned a few cool things. The main problem with this specialization is that the Machine Learning Stuff and Finance stuff are really separated (Google, NY univ). What I was looking for is the place where two concepts meets. Also i felt like ML stuff went too deeply too fast. Still... Cool Introduction.

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    By Aadam

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    Apr 2, 2020

    It is geared more towards people who already have an understanding of the stock market and its lingo. Not much information about stock market lingo for a beginner.

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    By MiX_

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    Oct 30, 2024

    Lab is obsoleted... and the practice doesn't give you any advice and the packages doesn't work due are very old or not anymore mantainance

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    By Oliver P

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    Aug 4, 2020

    While there were a lot of interesting concepts in this course, I didn't feel that I learned a lot from it and certainly was nowhere near implementing what I wanted to. It pushes Google's cloud services so you're on your own if you want to program on your own computer. I've since completed a course by deeplearning.ai (not trading focussed) which I felt was a lot better, I learned a lot of theory to develop an understanding of what they're teaching as well as practical coding assignments that I felt I could actually take the code and apply to my own projects.

    Google pushes its ability to learn from BigData but I really don't consider stock data to be BigData, at least if you're processing a single instrument/currency/stock at a time. If you're trying to go down to tick level data then you're going to have more problems with lag and execution making processing that amount of data a bit pointless... unless that's really really what you want/need to be doing.

    To be fair to this course, it is good to know what is out there should it be suitable for your challenges and yeah, they can process a massive, huge, gigantic amount of data very quickly.

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    By Jie Z

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    Mar 7, 2025

    Trading part is okay, but the reinforcement learning part is terrible. Not only the contents are a lot, the instructor speaking pace is too fast, with a high pitch. She might be passionate about RL and very experienced, but it does not mean she can teach others that way. Besides, all the labs do not work for me, with deprecated packages and code. This course should be updated or removed from Coursera.

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    By IOANNIS P

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    Apr 2, 2025

    Some of the notebooks used in the course are outdated, and thus the "labs" are not really functional

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    By Eduardo A L A

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    Sep 10, 2024

    Most labs codes had errors and could not even load data. Unable to practice with labs like that.

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    By David G

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    Jun 18, 2020

    Few financial applications. RL is a complex notions. Exerices are too difficult.

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    By Noviyanti K

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    Jul 13, 2020

    not really make me statisfied

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