Portfolio Management using Machine Learning: Hierarchical Risk Parity

Do you want a robust technique to allocate capital to different assets in your portfolio? This is the right course for you. Learn to apply the hierarchical risk parity (HRP) approach on a group of 16 stocks and compare the performance with inverse volatility weighted portfolios (IVP), equal-weighted portfolios (EWP), and critical line algorithm (CLA) techniques. And concepts such as hierarchical clustering, dendrograms, and risk management.

LIVE TRADING

• Allocate weights to a portfolio based on a hierarchical risk parity approach.
• Create a stock screener.
• Describe inverse volatility weighted portfolios (IVP) and critical line algorithm (CLA).
• Backtest the performance of different portfolio management techniques.
• Explain the limitations of IVPs, CLA and equal-weighted portfolios.
• Compute and plot the portfolio performance statistics such as returns, volatility, and drawdowns.
• Implement a hierarchical clustering algorithm and explain the mathematics behind the working of hierarchical clustering.
• Describe the dendrograms and interpret the linkage matrix.

SKILLS COVERED

Portfolio Management

• Inverse Volatility Portfolios
• Critical Line Algorithm
• Return/Risk Optimization
• Hierarchical Risk Parity

Python

• Numpy
• Pandas
• Sklearn
• Matplotlib
• Seaborn

Maths

• Linkage Matrix
• Dendrograms
• Clustering
• Euclidean distance
• Scaling

PREREQUISITES
A general understanding of trading in the financial markets such as how to place orders to buy and sell is helpful. Basic knowledge of the pandas dataframe and matplotlib would be beneficial to easily work with the codes covered in this course. To learn how to use Python, check out our free course “Python for Trading: Basic”.

SYLLABUS

Portfolio Management using Machine Learning: Hierarchical Risk Parity, what is it included (Content proof: Watch here!)

• Course Introduction
• Course Structure Flow Diagram
• Quantra Features
• Portfolio Basics and Stock Screening
• Inverse Volatility Portfolios
• Implementing Inverse Volatility Portfolios
• Correlation
• Markovitz Critical Line Algorithm
• Implementing CLA
• Hierarchical Clustering
• Mathematics Behind Hierarchical Clustering
• Clustering with Dendrograms
• Scaling Your Data
• Hierarchical Risk Parity
• Live Trading on Blueshift
• Live Trading Template
• Capstone Project
• Python Installation
• Course Summary

ABOUT AUTHOR

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USER TESTIMONIALS

Sean Tan

Singapore

I signed up to Quantra because when compared to other online teaching platforms, I noticed Quantra provides you with a complete package of Beginners to Advanced level courses. The content is very good and more importantly, very relevant to the real world. But you would have to explore and tweak the strategies to perform the best for you. The learning curve is steep but exciting

Alan

Hong Kong

I really liked the content of the course provided on Quantra, especially in the Machine Learning (ML) related courses. The video units make it very easy to understand complex concepts of ML. They also provide you with downloadable codes at the end of the courses which can be used by you to experiment and learn on your own. This is not very common in the online teaching industry.

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