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Developing actionable trading agents

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Trading agents are useful for developing and back-testing quality trading strategies to support smart trading actions in the market. However, most of the existing trading agent research oversimplifies trading strategies, and focuses on simulated ones. As a result, there exists a big gap between the deliverables and business needs when the developed strategies are deployed into the real life. Therefore, the actionable capability of developed trading agents is often very limited. This paper for the first time introduces effective approaches for optimizing and integrating multiple classes of strategies through trading agent collaboration. An integration and optimization approach is proposed to identify optimal trading strategy in each category, and further integrate optimal strategies crossing classes. Positions associated with these optimal strategies are recommended for trading agents to take actions in the market. Extensive experiments on a large quantity of real-life market data show that trading agents following the recommended strategies have great potential to obtain high benefits while low costs. This verifies that it is promising to develop trading agents toward workable and satisfying business needs.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Longbing Cao

  2. School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Tony He

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This work is sponsored in part by Australian Research Council Grants (DP0773412, LP0775041, DP0667060).

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Cao, L., He, T. Developing actionable trading agents. Knowl Inf Syst 18, 183–198 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-008-0170-2

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