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Learn Algorithmic Trading
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Learn Algorithmic Trading

by Sebastien Donadio, Sourav Ghosh
November 2019
Beginner
394 pages
10h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Implementing advanced concepts, such as seasonality, in trading instruments

In trading, the price we receive is a collection of data points at constant time intervals called time series. They are time dependent and can have increasing or decreasing trends and seasonality trends, in other words, variations specific to a particular time frame. Like any other retail products, financial products follow trends and seasonality during different seasons. There are multiple seasonality effects: weekend, monthly, and holidays.

In this section, we will use the GOOG data from 2001 to 2018 to study price variations based on the months.

  1. We will write the code to regroup the data by months, calculate and return the monthly returns, and then compare these ...
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