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Learn Algorithmic Trading
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Learn Algorithmic Trading

by Sebastien Donadio, Sourav Ghosh
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
394 pages
10h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Learn Algorithmic Trading

Our first algorithmic trading (buy when the price is low, and sell when the price is high)

You may now feel that you are impatient to make money, and you may also be thinking When can you start doing so?

We have talked about what we will address in this book. In this section, we will start building our first trading strategy, called buy low, sell high.

Building a trading strategy takes time and goes through numerous steps:

  1. You need an original idea. This part will use a well-known money-making strategy: we buy an asset with a price lower than the one we will use to sell it. For the purpose of illustrating this idea, we will be using Google stock.
  2. Once we get the idea, we need data to validate the idea. In Python, there are many packages ...
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ISBN: 9781789348347Supplemental Content