Crypto Trading with QuantConnect (C#)
What you'll learn
- Build your own trading algorithms and run them LIVE in the market, making you money while you relax and enjoy your life!
- Implement different strategies into code and backtest with historical data
- Be able to create automated trading programs that trade for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Create variables, QC Indicators, dictionaries, lists, custom classes, and good programming etiquette in C#
Requirements
- Basic Computer Skills, Internet Connection
- Interest in computer programming, equity trading, and crypto currency
- Prior knowledge in computer programming (C#) is helpful but not required
Description
Eric Summers shows you how to use QuantConnect to write your own algorithmic trading programs to trade cryptocurrency LIVE in the market! Students will learn how to use the QC coding environment to create algorithms, run backtests on historical data, and interpret their results to optimize their programs. By the end of the class, students will know how to connect their programs to their GDAX account and launch their algorithms LIVE in the market. Course covers basic programming etiquette (C#), using QC's built in Indicators, Loops and Conditionals, Logging Data, Plotting Charts, Debugging, as well as breaking down different strategies that are used by some of the best traders...
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to learn how to make money by writing algorithms that trade cryptocurrencies
- Beginner programmers who would like to learn to program in the context of stock trading
- Amateur programmers who would like to learn to algorithmically trade crypto currency
- Anyone who is looking for a cutting edge industry to work in allowing them to work remotely
- Future quants
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Instructor
Eric Summers has a B.S. in Astronomy from the University of Texas in Austin. He started programming in college in Java and has since made games in Python, made apps in Swift, made websites in HTML/CSS and written hundreds of algorithmic trading programs in C# and Python. Eric resides in Austin, TX and has many hobbies including Parkour, Graphic Design, Web Development, Juggling, Stand Up Comedy, Electronics, Permaculture, playing guitar and riding his motorcycle. He has published a children's book and a book of original cartoons.