Stay Ahead Of The Curve: AI Weekly. AI-Driven Algorithmic Trading: Disrupting The Disruptors The investment world has recently gone through at times a quiet and secretive, yet dramatic revolution as machines entered an area where man used to reign (and trade) supreme. The first major step in the process came in late 90s as algorithmic trading came in on the back of advanced quant funds and first high-frequency traders. Now, as the world is embracing the artificial intelligence revolution, another tectonic shift is on the way. What is AI-driven algorithmic trading all about, and why should you be excited about it? Keep reading to find out.



Read more. MarketWatch Press Release - Stock Market Forecast: AI-Based Algorithm Shows Accuracy Up To 97% In S&P 500 and Nasdaq Predictions The predictive artificial intelligence trained by I Know First, an Israel-based stock forecast company, has demonstrated an accuracy of up to 97% in its predictions for SandP 500 (^GSPC) and Nasdaq (^IXIC) indices, as well as their respective ETFs (SPY and QQQ). That is according to a recent stock market predictions evaluation report published by the company on August 6, 2019. The algorithm’s accuracy has consistently stayed above 60% across all time horizons covered in the review despite the uptick in market volatility.



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MarketWatch Press Release - Market Forecast: AI-Driven Bulwark Against Market Unpredictability Financial market data is prone to change. This is true for interest rates, true for the earnings and expenses of various publically traded companies, true for hundreds of other factors that a skilled financial advisor would look at. All these can have an impact on the dynamics of various stocks, sectors and markets, and is thus relevant for a machine learning algorithm.



By virtue of being, in essence, a complex function describing the relationships and patterns within the dataset it was trained on, AI does not do to well when these relationships and patterns evolve. This is why it has to evolve with them.



The answer lies in the so-called genetic programming.



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Algorithmic Trading: Wisdom Of The Crowd vs. Algorithmic Trading

Algorithmic trading, and especially algorithms bolstered by artificial intelligence, is now a leading industry-wide trend. For example, the hedge fund Quantopian crowd sources their security trading algorithms by having amateur analysts compete for commissions on their best products. The Wall Street Journal also notes that prominent corporations have begun tapping into the AI academia in order to come ahead in their investments. Since last spring, Morgan Stanley signed on Michael Kearns, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, to act as senior advisor at its AI Center of Excellence, and JP Morgan Chase & Co. has likewise reached out to Carnegie Mellon University professor Manuela Veloso to spearhead its AI research program. At the advent of this trend, however, were smaller groundbreaking start-ups such as I Know First



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Bitcoin Prediction: Fool’s Gold Or Future Of Currency? After a rollercoaster of a ride, Bitcoin is slowly crawling back up again; its exchange rate is currently bouncing around the $11,000 mark, with the current trend being up. While there are fears that the current upwards movement is nothing but a bubble, there are also those who think that this is not the same story all over, because this time, Bitcoin’s rise is fueled mostly by institutional investors.



So is Bitcoin the currency of the future? Is it time to throw out your quality leather wallet and brace for the crypto-age? Well… Probably not. Yes and no, to be more precise.



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