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Building Trading Algorithms with Python
Rating: 3.2 out of 5(20 ratings)
199 students

Building Trading Algorithms with Python

Learn how to create an impressive trading bot using the different Python tools
Created byPackt Publishing
Last updated 9/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • Explore the landscape, of trading bots for different market segments
  • Use Python and Pandas to track data and trends for different traditional trading market spaces
  • Explore several trading bot modules, including stocks, traditional assets, and Forex trade
  • Use Python to build a trading bot to track market trends
  • Use your trading bot to decide when to purchase and when to sell
  • Designing trading logic using Python
  • Ensure different types of order are catered for by your bot
  • Learn techniques for training and scaling your trading bot
  • Apply practical code examples without acquiring excessive theory

Course content

4 sections • 17 lectures • 1h 16m total length

  • The Course Overview3:01

    This video provides an overview of the entire course.

  • Benefits of Developing a Trading Bot to Programmers – Why Build a Trading Bot?2:19

    What is a trading bot? Why as a programmer should you invest time in a building a trading bot? How to go about building a bot?

    • Introduction to trading bots

    • Understand the reason to build a trading bot

    • Learn to build a trading bot

  • How to Handle Data for Trading in Python9:40

    Learn the basics of how to get and handle historical trade data, which forms the basis of analyzing any stock data. Use Python and some modules to do the same.

    • Discuss the required software

    • Handle stocks data from the internet

    • Learn to load stocks data from the local machine

  • Use Python and Pandas with Time Series Data9:09

    Understand what time series data is and learn how to use Python and modules to explore and analyze stock time series data.

    • Discuss the basics of time series data

    • Read, explore, analyze, and visualize stock data for a single stock

    • Learn to handle data from multiple stocks

  • Order Types and Short Selling2:55

    Learn about various order types and understand what short selling is.

    • Discuss various order types

    • Explain short selling

Requirements

  • Some basic knowledge of investments (optional) will find this course useful.

Description

This course is a great opportunity to get started with trading, reap the rewards, and take the markets by storm. Programmers who have a basic knowledge of trading in traditional assets and wish to develop their own trading bots will find that this course addresses their core concerns and shows how to go about designing and developing a trading bot. 

The course will enable you to get started with creating a traditional asset trading bot. It will arm you with all the necessary programming tools and techniques to develop a full-fledged trading bot that numerous investors/traders can utilize. It covers general features such as using a financial calculator to do conversions, simply by interacting with a bot. Your customers, using your trading, bot can look up recent trends to make informed predictions and see what others have been trading, and how much.

About the Author

Harish Garg, founder of BignumWorks Software LLP, is a data scientist and a lead software developer with 17 years' software industry experience. BignumWorks is an India-based software consultancy that provides consultancy services in software development and technical training. Harish has worked for McAfee\Intel for 11+ years. He is an expert in creating data visualizations using R, Python, and web-based visualization libraries.

Mithun Lakshmanaswamy of BignumWorks Software LLP has been developing applications in Python for 9+ years. He has written enterprise-level distributed applications that are deployed on scores of servers and have the ability to support thousands of users simultaneously. Some of the applications he has developed are related to parsing millions of virus definitions, analyzing network packets from an enterprise setup, and so on. He is also quite proficient in teaching technical concepts and is quite involved with his current organization’s training programmes. He has worked on multiple projects working with Python, AWS and so on, implementing the concepts of concurrent and distributed computing. 

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who is comfortable with Python programming.

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