Algorithmic Trading Intro: From Basics To Bots

Beginners: Candlesticks, News Sentiment CryptoBot, Momentum Strategy, Mean Reversion, Alpaca Trading Bot in Python

What you'll learn:
How To Read Stock Charts
Understand Candlestick Charts
Use Python's Alpaca-Trade-Api Library
Execute Stock Trades Using Python (Submit Orders)
Concept of A Time Series Momentum Trading Strategy
Code A Momentum Strategy In Python
Calculate Performance Of Your Strategy
News Headlines Sentiment Cryptocurrency Trading Bot
Automate Trades On Stock Exchange
Mean Reversion Strategy
Python: A Beginner's Guide
Paper Trading

Requirements:
You Only Need A Computer & A Gmail Account
No Programming Skills Needed
No Installs Required To Run Python
No Trading or Finance Knowledge Needed

Description:
Course Highlights:
No installs are required for running Python (usually this can be tedious)
Understand stock charts - be able to look at candlestick charts and explain the trends to your friends
Use Python to write a Momentum Time Series Strategy in Python & test its performance
Build a trading bot that can execute automated trades on a stock exchange
Use a simple mean reversion strategy
Build a News Sentiment Trading Bot that can execute trades on a crypto currency exchange (Binance)
Use news headlines as an indicator to trigger trades
Use your bots to Paper Trade or Live Trade
assumes no prior knowledge of trading, the stock market, crypto currency exchanges or Python

Made for Beginners
If you are interested in learning Algorithmic training but do not have any prior knowledge on trading or computer programming, this course gives a quick overview of some concepts in trading and some Python practice.
Quite often if you enrol in an Algorithmic Trading course, it is assumed that you have some prior knowledge. This course aims to help you with that - to have some prior knowledge before furthering your interest or studies in the Algorithmic Trading direction.
This course is ideal for anyone who has NO PRIOR knowledge of:
finance & trading
the stock market
python
computer programming (A Python Beginner's Guide Chapter is included)
algorithms/algorithmic trading


No Installs For Using Python
Coding Environment: Google Colab
No need to do lengthy, tedious Anaconda installs to run Jupyter Notebook on your laptop
All you need is a Gmail account
Google Colab is one of the top choices of Professional Data Scientists in the real world
Stock Charts
Learn how to read Stock Data on Candlestick charts
Identify if a day had a Bullish vs Bearish trend from looking at Candlesticks
Get familiar with OHLCV Data
Identify A Spinning Top Candlestick
Understand what Spinning Top Candlestick means in terms of predicting stock trends

S&P 500
An Overview of the Industry Sectors that make up the S&P 500 Index
Source Free Historic Market Data
Use the Yahoo Finance Python Library to pull pricing data (FREE)
Use Python's Alpaca-Trade-Api
a python library for the Alpaca Commission Free Trading API
Get Alpaca API Keys
Integrate these keys into your Python code
Backtesting
An overview - Why backtesting is important
How different types of Bias can cause misleading backtesting results
Selection Bias
Look Ahead Bias
Overfitting
Time Series Momentum Strategy In Python
The concept of time-series momentum trading is explained with engaging on-screen, hand-drawn visuals
Create a time series momentum strategy using Python
Performance Metrics - Assess The Time Series Momentum Strategy
Calculate the performance of your strategy with the Sharpe ratio
Calculate Buy & Hold revenue without using the strategy
Compare Buy & Hold with the strategy - which performed better?
Paper Trading
Get introduced to paper trading and create trading bots capable of paper trading on stock market & crypto currency exchanges
Python
A Beginner's Guide
Two In-Depth Practical Projects
Build An Automated Trading Bot (Used for Live or Paper trading)
Build A News Sentiment Cryptocurrency Trading Bot

Who this course is for:
If you find Algorithmic trading & the stock market interesting but never actually got around to it
Any beginner who is interested in Algorithmic Trading
Beginners who are unfamiliar with programming
A curiosity to know how Python can be used to execute trades on a stock exchange

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