QuantNet: Transferring Learning Across Systematic Trading Strategies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03445v2
• Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:46:25 GMT
• Title: QuantNet: Transferring Learning Across Systematic Trading Strategies
• Authors: Adriano Koshiyama, Sebastian Flennerhag, Stefano B. Blumberg, Nick Firoozye and Philip Treleaven
• Abstract summary: We introduce QuantNet: an architecture that learns market-agnostic trends and use these to learn superior market-specific trading strategies. We evaluate QuantNet on historical data across 3103 assets in 58 global equity markets.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Systematic financial trading strategies account for over 80% of trade volume in equities and a large chunk of the foreign exchange market. In spite of the availability of data from multiple markets, current approaches in trading rely mainly on learning trading strategies per individual market. In this paper, we take a step towards developing fully end-to-end global trading strategies that leverage systematic trends to produce superior market-specific trading strategies. We introduce QuantNet: an architecture that learns market-agnostic trends and use these to learn superior market-specific trading strategies. Each market-specific model is composed of an encoder-decoder pair. The encoder transforms market-specific data into an abstract latent representation that is processed by a global model shared by all markets, while the decoder learns a market-specific trading strategy based on both local and global information from the market-specific encoder and the global model. QuantNet uses recent advances in transfer and meta-learning, where market-specific parameters are free to specialize on the problem at hand, whilst market-agnostic parameters are driven to capture signals from all markets. By integrating over idiosyncratic market data we can learn general transferable dynamics, avoiding the problem of overfitting to produce strategies with superior returns. We evaluate QuantNet on historical data across 3103 assets in 58 global equity markets. Against the top performing baseline, QuantNet yielded 51% higher Sharpe and 69% Calmar ratios. In addition we show the benefits of our approach over the non-transfer learning variant, with improvements of 15% and 41% in Sharpe and Calmar ratios. Code available in appendix.

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