MacroGlide on Instagram: "1. Advances in Financial Machine Learning (Marcos López de Prado) This book redefined quantitative investing by applying machine learning techniques to financial data. López de Prado shows how to clean, label, and structure financial time series to avoid false patterns and overfitting—issues that plague traditional quant models. His methods, such as the triple-barrier labeling technique and meta-labeling, are now widely used in hedge funds and systematic research desks.