US_Stocks_Financial_Indicators

# 200+ Financial Indicators of US Stocks (2018)

## Context
Algorithmic trading space is buzzing with new strategies. Companies have spent billions in infrastructure and R&D to be able to jump ahead of the competition and beat the market. Finding value in stocks is an art that very few mastered. Can a computer do that?

## Content
This dataset contains 200+ financial indicators that are commonly found in the 10-K filings each publicly traded company releases yearly, for a period of US stocks for 2018.

## Target Variables
The dataset includes two class labels:
1. PRICE VAR [%]: Lists the percent price variation for 2018
2. class: Binary classification for each stock where:
- 1: Identifies stocks that an hypothetical trader should BUY
- 0: Identifies stocks that an hypothetical trader should NOT BUY

## Important Notes
- Some financial indicator values might be missing
- Contains outliers with extreme values (possibly due to mistyping)
- Price variations are calculated from the first trading day of 2018 to the last trading day of 2018