MCTG:Multi-frequency continuous-share trading algorithm with GARCH based on deep reinforcement learning
Making profits in stock market is a challenging task for both professional institutional investors and individual traders. With the development combination of quantitative trading and reinforcement learning, more trading algorithms have achieved significant gains beyond the benchmark model Buy Hold (B H). There is a certain gap between these algorithms and the real trading decision making scenarios. On the one hand, they only consider trading signals while ignoring the number of transactions. On the other hand, the information level considered by these algorithms is not rich enough, which limits the performance of these algorithms. Thus, we propose an algorithm called the Multi-frequency Continuous-share Trading algorithm with GARCH (MCTG) to solve the problems above, which consists of parallel network layers and deep reinforcement learning. The former is composed of three parallel network layers, respectively dealing with different frequencies (five minute, one day, one week) data, and day level considers the volatilities of stocks. The latter with a continuous action space of the reinforcement learning algorithm is used to solve the problem of trading stock shares. Experiments in different industries of Chinese stock market show our method achieves more extra profit comparing with basic DRL methods and bench model.
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