In many ways, AI and finance are made for each other.
Machine learning and other techniques make it easier to identify patterns that might otherwise not be detected by the human eye, and finance is quantitative, to begin with, so that it’s hard not to find traction.Financial firms have also invested heavily in AI in the past, and more are starting to tap into the financial applications of machine learning (ML) and deep learning.
Artificial intelligence in stock trading certainly isn’t a new phenomenon, but access to its capabilities has historically been rather limited to large firms.This week, we’re joined by CEO and Co-founder of Kavout Alex Lu, whose company offers AI trading applications for enterprises and individuals.
Lu speaks today about the kinds of patterns that traders now have access to in finance, and he gives examples of ways Kavout and other institutions are using artificial intelligence in stock trading to build better and more personalized products and services.Also Read: AI in Accounting & Finance — How AI Will Impact The Accounting & Finance Industry?AI and machine learning, quantitative investing and tradingEventually, Wall Street, when they looked at AI models, found that by using machine learning they can number crunch millions of data points in real-time and capture some of the correlations that traditional statistics models could not capture, and that is the dollar track to go after today.
Especially the deep learning models, a new trend in the last two years.This gets the attention from the big boys on Wall Street, and they are trying to recruit people from Google, from Microsoft, from Apple and IBM Watson, to help them build huge AI clusters, to leverage this technology for trading and investing todayAt the very beginning of the last few years, only some of the very large hedge funds and financial institutions, like Goldman Sachs, were able to gather enough resources to invest in this field.
So today it’s still not common knowledge among financial institutions, and Kavout is one of the only firms investing in this direction;I think it’s going to be a very popular space, based on some of the data we see in 2015, in the hedge fund world, the AI-based trading firms are doing pretty well versus the rest of the hedge fund industry is not doing that good.