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In A Rough Year For Hedge Funds, This One Outperformed In 2018 Using Machine Learning

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Mark Melin
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In a January research note, UBS analyst Dr. John Roy said investors must understand machine learning because it would be a “possible driver for decades” in the larger economy. But in the area of trading, profitable performance is rare. But Michael Beal, co-founder of Data Capital Management, claims to have cracked the code.

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Data Capital Management, which uses systematic investment and machine learning techniques to generate trades, turned a profit using machine learning in 2018, Beal told ValueWalk. While exact performance statistics can’t be released due to...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.