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Trade and Invest Smarter — The Reinforcement Learning Way
A deep dive into TensorTrade — the Python framework for trading and investing using deep reinforcement learning
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Winning high stakes poker tournaments, out-playing world-class StarCraft players, and autonomously driving Tesla’s futuristic sports cars. What do they all have in common? Each of these extremely complex tasks were long thought to be impossible by machines, until recent advancements in deep reinforcement learning showed they were possible, today.
Reinforcement learning is beginning to take over the world.
A little over two months ago, I decided I wanted to take part in the revolution, so I set out on a journey to create a profitable Bitcoin trading strategy using state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning algorithms. While I…