Installing Tensorflow has become easier and more accessible for more people.
It no longer requires a special install of Linux (or an equivalent with a VM (virtual machine/Docker, etc..) to install TensorFlow in a virtualized environment)
In the 12 months since Tensorflow has been released by Google as an open source platform, there have been
quite a number of webinars, training, various workshop been posted on YouTube, each with more or less information,
from general to specialised.
My goal with this thread is to make a small example, using tensorflow, that improves an existing trading method,
using artificial intelligence, using the Tensorflow platform.
Tensorflow is open source and free and can be donwloaded from :
I will be using NinjaTrader as a charting package and for order routing to a broker :
Free Trading Platform | NinjaTrader (
I will be trading futures as financial instruments. No limitations on the instruments, but most likely will first try to make a single version on a single instrument. The goals is to have a multi instrument version that is able to trade many different instruments.