User profiles for Marcos López de Prado

Marcos Lopez de Prado

Professor of Practice, School of Engineering, Cornell University
Verified email at cornell.edu
Cited by 4873

[BOOK][B] Advances in financial machine learning

ML De Prado - 2018 - books.google.com
Learn to understand and implement the latest machine learning innovations to improve your
investment performance Machine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our …

Flow toxicity and liquidity in a high-frequency world

D Easley, MM López de Prado… - The Review of Financial …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Order flow is toxic when it adversely selects market makers, who may be unaware they are
providing liquidity at a loss. We present a new procedure to estimate flow toxicity based on …

The 10 reasons most machine learning funds fail

ML De Prado - The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2018 - jpm.pm-research.com
The rate of failure in quantitative finance is high, particularly in financial machine learning
applications. The few managers who succeed amass a large amount of assets and deliver …

Pseudomathematics and financial charlatanism: The effects of backtest over fitting on out-of-sample performance

DH Bailey, JM Borwein, ML de Prado, QJ Zhu - Notices of the AMS, 2014 - ams.org
… The inevitable consequence is that SR calculations are likely to be the subject of
substantial estimation errors (see Bailey and López de Prado [2] for a confidence band and …

The probability of backtest overfitting

DH Bailey, J Borwein, M Lopez de Prado… - Journal of …, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
Many investment firms and portfolio managers rely on backtests (ie, simulations of performance
based on historical market data) to select investment strategies and allocate capital. …

Solving the optimal trading trajectory problem using a quantum annealer

…, P Goddard, P Carr, K Wu, ML De Prado - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We solve a multi-period portfolio optimization problem using D-Wave Systems' quantum
annealer. We derive a formulation of the problem, discuss several possible integer encoding …

Microstructure in the machine age

D Easley, M López de Prado, M O'Hara… - The Review of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Understanding modern market microstructure phenomena requires large amounts of data
and advanced mathematical tools. We demonstrate how machine learning can be applied to …

[HTML][HTML] Connecting the dots in trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: From AI principles, ethics, and key requirements to responsible AI systems and regulation

…, J Del Ser, M Coeckelbergh, ML de Prado… - Information …, 2023 - Elsevier
Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) is based on seven technical requirements sustained over
three main pillars that should be met throughout the system’s entire life cycle: it should be …

The Sharpe ratio efficient frontier

DH Bailey, M Lopez de Prado - Journal of Risk, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
We evaluate the probability that an estimated Sharpe ratio exceeds a given threshold in
presence of non-Normal returns. We show that this new uncertainty-adjusted investment skill …

Discerning information from trade data

D Easley, ML De Prado, M O'Hara - Journal of Financial Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
How best to discern trading intentions from market data? We examine the accuracy of three
methods for classifying trade data: bulk volume classification (BVC), tick rule and aggregated …