Algorithmic trading on Alpaca's Platform - Deep Dive

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)

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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.

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