Automated trading with boosting and expert weighting

Quantitative Finance

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 401-420

  Creamer, Germán ^a   Freund, Yoav ^b  

^a CENTRUM CATÓLICA GRADUATE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithmic trading; Automated trading; Boosting; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951262368     PISSN: 14697688     EISSN: 14697696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697680903104113     Document Type: Article

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