Learn AI-Based Securities Trading with Israel Hernandez

Are you a data scientist you developing models using ML, DL, NN, and NLP? Do you want to take advantage of AI's power to buy and sell stocks and options but you don't know how the stock market works? Do you want to connect your algorithm to a stock broker? Do you want 15+ years of data to train models and find patterns? This Meetup is to share our interests, experiences, trading techniques, data, and capabilities to create the next generation of algorithms that will operate in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and exchanges around the world.

According to a report by JP Morgan, between 70% and 80% of the daily trades of the NYSE are executed by algorithms. In addition, AIEQ is the first fully autonomous exchange-traded fund (ETF) listed on the NYSE, controlled with AI and without human intervention. It began trading on October 17, 2017 and today it manages $124 million using IBM Watson to analyze more than 1 million data points daily to build predictive financial models of approximately 6,000 companies.

About the Speaker

Israel I. Hernandez is a serial entrepreneur from Mexico who now makes his home in Miami. Even before graduating from Insituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores in Monterrey in 2000, he incorporated his first business that offered multimedia solutions and video animations in 1996. By 1998, he had co-founded a second business specializing in web hosting, web design, connecting legacy systems to the Internet, and developing web-based applications. They became the second-largest Internet domain sellers in Mexico and developed the country's first Internet-based electronic banking system. In 2005, Israel and his partners spun off a division focused on credit-card transactions into Merchant Services of Mexico, known commercially as Punto Clave. After a period of rapid growth, a French company called Edenred, with a presence in 62 countries, acquired Punto Clave.

Israel decided to move to Miami in 2014 where, with his brother Omar, he decided to build a trading platform from the ground up. First, they connected all the pieces like data providers and a multinational stock brokerage. Then they coding an algorithmic trading strategy that is up and running with real money. Now they are inviting traders with successful strategies to join them to convert those strategies into code and integrate them into the platform. They are also inviting AI enthusiasts to develop AI models from the more than 1.5 billion data points in the system.

Parking

Attendees are welcome to park for free in TheVentureCity's parking lot accessible via 9th St. Otherwise, metered street parking is available on 8th St.