
Explore algorithmic cryptocurrency trading in Python, designing robust quant strategies with data handling, risk management, and portfolio sizing, plus live deployment and API automation across decentralized and centralized exchanges.
Learn to fetch historical candle data by using the IO Sonic HTTP client with a rate semaphore and async calls to respect credits and rate limits when querying exchange endpoints.
Explore retrieving Binance derivatives data via rest api and websockets for usdm, including candlestick data with period and multiplier, and building a custom Python wrapper and async data pipeline.
Obtain candlestick data with a utility sdk, map binance granularities, and convert results to a pandas dataframe for seamless, UTC-based analysis while respecting rate limits.
Fetch the Binance exchange info endpoint to access all symbols. Filter for trading status and perpetual contracts to build the universe of assets for a trend-following demonstration.
Explore the distinction between inefficiencies and risk premiums, emphasize risk management and robust validation, and learn to test trend-following ideas with regression and backtesting.
Explore how simple linear regression links future returns to historical returns using least squares to estimate beta zero, beta one, and assess model significance before backtesting.
Extend simple linear regression to multivariate regression using a coefficient matrix and multiple explanatory variables. Project y onto the column space of A and compute beta_hat = (A^T A)^{-1} A^T y.
Normalize by volatility and bin data to reveal a positive momentum effect in regression of forward versus historical cryptocurrency returns, while mean versus median aggregation shifts the apparent relationship.
Apply winsorization to temper extreme data points, bridging the mean and median value functions by adjusting tail limits with SciPy.stats Winsorized, then examine its effect on regression and backtest readiness.
Backtest trend following in cryptocurrency by simulating moving-average rules, quantify the edge with alpha, and extract performance statistics such as drawdown, volatility, and regime behavior.
Implement and test a backtest by selecting eligible tickers, computing forecasts, sizing positions with forecast chips, and calculating PNL to verify portfolio accounting.
Apply volatility-based position sizing to translate forecasts into risk-adjusted bets, using a 30-day rolling volatility to normalize bets and improve diversification in a trend-following crypto strategy.
Size portfolio exposure to target volatility, using historical volatility as a proxy and online-smoothed estimates to adjust leverage while accounting for covariance.
Implement volatility targeting for cryptocurrency trading by online updating exponentially weighted moving averages and scalars to dynamically size positions and stabilize the equity curve around a chosen target volatility.
Reframe algorithmic cryptocurrency trading with a modular backtesting framework that abstracts signal calculation from position sizing and PNL, integrating moving average and Bollinger score alphas into a diversified portfolio.
Examine reality modeling by accounting for execution costs, slippage, transaction costs, market impact, and holding costs, then apply threshold-based rebalancing to reduce costs in alpha class simulations.
Extract target positions from the portfolio data, compute changes using capital and inertia, and place market orders via the Python Binance asynchronous client.
Extend algorithmic trading by accounting for holding costs, swap cashflows, and multi-granularity data; test performance with advanced metrics, using Quant Pilot’s exchange gateway for Binance, Bybit, and Hyper Liquid Paradox.
Algorithmic Cryptocurrency Trading teaches the in-and-outs of building robust quantitative frameworks for testing and simulating your ideas for quantitative trading.
Learn about various approaches to testing your quantitative strategies, from statistical models to simulations and industry standards in risk management such as volatility targeting. Combine arbitrary, multiple signals/strategies and walk away with an end-to-end trading system that goes from collecting data to order submission on exchanges.
Learn how to think like about trading strategies like a quant trader. There are two monetizable effects - inefficiencies and risk premiums. An Ichimoku Cloud, Fibonacci Retracement and Stochastic Oscillators are neither of them.
Quantitative trading is not a hobby, and do not treat it as one. The content is designed for aspiring quants, and an introduction into the science and discipline of trading that practitioners contest with.
This course is not a beginner course; financial literacy, and programming methodology is expected. Students are expected to be able to understand code without being prompted, or at least learn how to comprehend medium-sized code systems of hundreds~thousands of lines of code.
Those without programming experience are encouraged to first undergo courses in Python / Programming Methodology / Data Science for Finance courses.
Note:
- this is not intended for high frequency trading (market-making, latency arbitrage)
- this course is not part of the Udemy Deals program, and no Udemy promotions are available. We believe that the material within is highly valuable and the cost price is cost de minimis in your quant journey.