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Machine Learning & Quant Finance

The Financial Robot has been Sixty Years in the Making

Automation I

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Dr. Derek Snow
Jan 07, 2021
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“A computer will never tell you to buy one stock and sell another… (there is) no substitute …for flair in judgement, and a sense of timing.” - Wall Street Journal 1962.[1]

After digging through archives in Cambridge while working on a project to write a revisionist history of machine learning in finance, I came across early ‘Cybernetics’ articles that ha…

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