Reinforcement Learning for Trading Strategies

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This program is a non-degree course in Reinforcement Learning for Trading Strategies, offered by Google Cloud in Toronto. It's for students who want to learn about reinforcement learning and its application in trading strategies, and it lasts several weeks.

The curriculum covers reinforcement learning, neural networks, and LSTMs, and how they can be applied to time series data. Students will learn to build trading strategies using reinforcement learning and differentiate between actor-based policies and value-based policies. They will also learn to incorporate RL into a momentum trading strategy.

After completing this program, students can pursue careers as Trading Strategy Developers, Quantitative Analysts, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, or Algorithmic Traders. They can work in industries like finance, banking, or investment, and for employers like google, hedge funds, or trading companies.