ASTRI’ s Smart Investment Platform

The Intelligent Investment Platform, developed jointly by ASTRI and t.Axiom, is capable of analysing large-scale financial data, calculating quantitative models and processing a big chunk of historical and real-time data. It provides in-depth analysis of empirical data, ensuring efficiency and accuracy. Using artificial intelligence to analyse customer needs and attributes, it suggests practical and meaningful investment strategies to help customers with the allocation of assets and selection of investment products. The tool is used by securities companies and fund managers to quantify investments, marking a significant progress in applying financial technology in this field. Bank of China (Hong Kong) has adopted this platform –  its ‘Smart Investment’ contest was organised using this platform, in partnership with ASTRI.

ASTRI’s Smart Investment Platform supports the users in the following ways:

  1. Intelligent stock selection and trading strategy system: To pick the stocks and automatically generate trading strategies based on big data analysis, artificial intelligence, genetic algorithm and machine learning algorithms.
  2. Graphical and intelligent trading strategy generation platform: Visual presentation of trading trends and display of back-test results to help ordinary traders to generate trading strategies in an automated manner

 

Intelligent market analysis system can gauge a particular event’s impact on different assets in the market. It explains the complex cause-effect market matrix relating the customer’s performance in simple words or graphics. As the trading volumes and complexities grow, the need to deal in large chunks of data is putting an enormous amount of stress of the customers who are burdened with the task of handling an unprecedented amount of information. In addition to the complexity in information, new and evolving regulatory requirements also affect the processes and practices in the financial markets. Under such a transmuting scenario, establishing correlations between different market factors using traditional theories and models has become very difficult. Not only has the current macro-economic environment become more complex, the need for risk management and controls have become greater too. The market itself has been the result of these complex information chemical reaction presented in front of us, the information provided to us enough for him to be more in-depth, combined with mathematics, statistics and other scientific and objective analysis. Such analysis can be real-time, accurate, and even self-correcting. Major events that impact the financial standing also make the market volatile to a certain extent – depending on the time involved, the extent of the impact depends on the nature of the event itself. Therefore, the analysis of the recent major events is very important.

ASTRI has been a pioneer in developing complex event processing system (Complex Event Process), large data processing capabilities, cloud parallel computing technology and other advanced platform and technology that have been adopted by customers for many years – from macro to micro level to carry out timely and accurate analysis, modeling, implementation of a set of processes.

ASTRI’s tools don’t limit their stock selection capability to only the traditional stock selection strategy. Through financial indicators or technical indicators, potential actions are identified for the next time the stock value goes up or down. In the selected stock pool, by applying the corresponding trading strategies, a comprehensive entry and exit conditions and wind control mechanisms are formed. That way, we can not only target the good stocks, but also have a good trading strategy that leads to a ‘one plus one is greater than two’ outcome. Our stock trading and portfolio screening tools are best-in-class in the market – maximising the potential benefits of the transactions. We use artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, and depth learning models to automatically search and optimise the trading strategy through self-learning and evolution, and ultimately find the most suitable approach to trading.

Our tools look for the correlation between specific factors and trading signals through supervised learning and unsupervised learning. It will synthesize information from fundamentals, technical aspects, trading behavior, capital surface, terminal behaviour, online financial data, and third party platform information. That leads to the analysis and rigorous selection of factors that have an important impact, and the ongoing formation of an optimised pool of factors.

In summary, ASTRI has a strong AI capability to devise technological solutions for the financial sector with a large pool of competent experts working for the institute. All of that, is meant to ensure Hong Kong’s continued leadership in the financial industry and a shining future for smart investment.