The Growth-Optimal Portfolio (GOP) theory determines the path of bet sizes that maximize long-term wealth. This multi-horizon goal makes it more appealing among practitioners than myopic approaches, like Markowitz's mean-variance or risk parity. The GOP literature typically considers...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Author -- Preamble -- 1 Financial Machine Learning as a Distinct Subject -- 1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 The Main Reason Financial Machine Learning Projects Usually Fail -- 1.2.1 The Sisyphus Paradigm -- 1.2.2 The Meta-Strategy Paradigm -- 1.3...