That was a good book. I looked at it recently and it’s now in the 3rd edition! Congrats.

Any other suggestions for good Packt books?

I agree, Packt’s quality is much lower than other publishers. As a rule of thumb I stay away but occasionally there’s a gem.

I’ve been looking at “Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading”. It feels like a dump of wikipedia and a bunch of jupyter notebooks with sloppy code. I cannot decide if it’s worth the pain if slogging through that mess.

https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Trading-...

finance book do help, 'ML for finance' books rarely do, the domain is too new and attracts many charlatans.

You're better off just learning ML from its classics like Hastie & Tibshirani , Tom Mitchell, or Bishop PRML.

And learn finance from its own classics you can find in any "financial engineering" curriculum.

There is one I liked though because of hands-on approach:

"Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading" https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Trading-...

just assume its listed "strategies" are a sort of primitive "hello world"