Algorithmic trading on Alpaca's Platform - Deep Dive

Advanced course on Implementing algorithmic trading strategies using Alpaca's API

What you'll learn
Algorithmic Trading
Alpaca's API
REST based API architecture
Handling Websocket based architecture
Multi threading application in algorithmic trading
Deploying strategies on cloud (AWS EC2)

Requirements
Basic python skills (should be familiar with data types, data structures, loops, functions, installing and importing libraries etc.)
Basic familiarity with finance/trading
Description
Alpaca has revolutionized trading by providing a commission free, API only stock trading platform. This course will help you gain thorough understanding about Alpaca's API and learn how to use it to implement trading strategy. The course will help you understand key concepts pertaining to API architecture (REST/HTTPS based API, Websocket connection etc.) and will prepare you well to build complex trading strategies on Alpaca's platform. You do not have to create a trading account with Alpaca to explore their API, as they also provide an excellent paper trading account which can help you test your strategies as well.

You can expect to gain the following skills from this course

What, Why & How of API trading

Alpaca's API fundamentals

Extracting historical data

Harnessing streaming tick level data

Incorporating technical indicators using python

Integrating Alpaca with TradingView charting

Backtesting strategies

End to End strategy design and deployment

Using multithreading to implement streaming data based strategies

Sqlite database management

Backtesting strategies

Deploying and running strategies on cloud (AWS EC2)

Important note - Course prerequisites

Please note that this course requires basic python proficiency. At the minimum, you should be comfortable with

basic python data types and format

basic python data structures such as list, dictionary, tuple etc.

how to create python functions

how to implement loops in python

installing and importing libraries

In addition, basic familiarity with finance/trading concepts is also required. Although, I have devoted reasonable time explaining concepts like technical indicators, strategy design, KPIs, risk management etc., some prior experience using these concepts would be very beneficial.

Who this course is for
Traders looking to automate their strategies on Alpaca's platform
Anyone interested in Algorithmic trading