Whatever resource I’m studying I run into roadblocks. Following the development of a topic, A -> B ->C and all good, but suddenly E appears with no obvious transition from what went before. Perhaps the author/tutor plans to cover C -> D and D -> E later, but I have difficulty when I lose track of an argument/development of an idea. Perhaps I’m just not very flexible.
My usual response is to go to another resource/reference. At the moment I’ve gone back to a Quantra course that I purchased quite a few months ago on Deep Reinforcement Learning in Trading. I think I abandoned that when I first looked at it because it uses TensorFlow for the NN part and I want to stick with PyTorch. These days I’m a little more comfortable with rewriting code that is designed for TF into the PyTorch version. It’s not really that hard.
Anyway I’m making progress with that course and don’t anticipate any further serious roadblocks. Pity I don’t plan to actually do any (short term) trading going forward. At the moment it’s just an intellectual exercise.