Learning financial asset-specific trading rules via deep reinforcement learning

M Taghian, A Asadi, R Safabakhsh - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Expert Systems with Applications, 2022Elsevier
Generating asset-specific trading signals based on the financial conditions of the assets is
one of the challenging problems in automated trading. Various asset trading rules are
proposed experimentally based on different technical analysis techniques. However, these
kind of trading strategies are profitable, extracting new asset-specific trading rules from vast
historical data to increase total return and decrease the risk of portfolios is difficult for human
experts. Recently, various deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods are employed to …
Abstract
Generating asset-specific trading signals based on the financial conditions of the assets is one of the challenging problems in automated trading. Various asset trading rules are proposed experimentally based on different technical analysis techniques. However, these kind of trading strategies are profitable, extracting new asset-specific trading rules from vast historical data to increase total return and decrease the risk of portfolios is difficult for human experts. Recently, various deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods are employed to learn the new trading rules for each asset. In this paper, a novel DRL model with various feature extraction modules is proposed. The effect of different input representations on the performance of the models is investigated and the performance of DRL-based models in different markets and asset situations is studied. The proposed model in this work outperformed the other state-of-the-art models in learning single asset-specific trading rules and obtained almost 12.4% more profit over the best state-of-the-art model on the Dow Jones Index in the same time period.
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