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Getting Started with Forex Trading Using Python
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Getting Started with Forex Trading Using Python

by Alex Krishtop
March 2023
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
10h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Developing Trading Strategies – Why They Are Different

For many years, I traded in various markets, educated developers in trading, and taught some essential programming and algorithm (algo) development to traders. Eventually, I concluded that the main problem for both groups (the developers and traders) was not a lack of knowledge in programming, but an incorrect or insufficient understanding of the subject domain, that is, financial markets and their mechanics.

This was quite a surprise for me. I thought that coding, debugging, and handling errors should be the main obstacle, but in reality, the problem is in finding useful, correct, and adequate information about markets, their structure, and operations, especially in regard to algo trading. ...

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