OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) Review and Tips

Eugene Yan · 7 years ago

A student reviews the Georgia Tech OMSCS Machine Learning for Trading course, which consists of eight programming assignments covering Python, finance, and machine learning applications to stock trading, plus two 30-question exams completed in 35 minutes each. The course requires an average of 10-11 hours per week, with individual assignments ranging from a few hours to 20 hours, and uses automated grading with immediate feedback through provided test cases. The student found the course valuable for learning technical analysis, financial instruments, and how to frame trading as a machine learning problem, though they would not apply the developed algorithms to real trading without further validation.