Artificial Intelligence in Financial Markets

As§technology advancement has increased, so to have computational applications for§forecasting, modelling and trading financial markets and information, and§practitioners are finding ever more complex solutions to financial challenges.§Neural networking is a highly effective, trainable algorithmic approach which§emulates certain aspects of human brain functions, and is used extensively in§financial forecasting allowing for quick investment decision making.§§This book presents the most cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI)/neural§networking applications for markets, assets and other areas of finance. Split§into four sections, the book first explores time series analysis for§forecasting and trading across a range of assets, including derivatives, exchange§traded funds, debt and equity instruments. This section will focus on pattern§recognition, market timing models, forecasting and trading of financial time§series. Section II provides insights into macro and microeconomics and how AI§techniques could be used to better understand and predict economic variables.§Section III focuses on corporate finance and credit analysis providing an§insight into corporate structures and credit, and establishing a relationship§between financial statement analysis and the influence of various financial§scenarios. Section IV focuses on portfolio management, exploring applications§for portfolio theory, asset allocation and optimization.§§This book presents some of the latest research in the field of artificial§intelligence and finance, and provides in-depth analysis and highly applicable§tools and techniques for practitioners and researchers in this field.§