Skip to Academy content

Level III · Module 10

Reinforcement Learning for Trading Decisions

Learning to act from rewards: Bellman equations, Q-learning and policy gradients, and their use in execution and market making.

This module is locked

Level III enrollment is open to Level II students, or with the complete three-level program.

Explore the module outline below, or start with the free orientation and Module 1.

Read the free orientation and Module 1

Module outline

  • Markov decision processes
  • Q-learning and policy gradients
  • Execution, simulators and evaluation

Intended learning outcome: Formulate a trading decision as an RL problem and judge whether an RL result is credible.