Quantitative Trading Strategies Using Python: Technical Analysis, Statistical Testing, and Machine Learning

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P. LiuQuantitative Trading Strategies Using Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9675-2_1

1. Quantitative Trading: An Introduction

Peng Liu¹  

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Singapore, Singapore

 

Quantitative trading, also called algorithmic trading, refers to automated trading activities that buy or sell particular instruments based on specific algorithms. Here, an algorithm can be considered a model that transforms an input into an output. In this case, the input includes sufficient data to make a proper trading decision, and the output is the action of buying or selling an instrument. The quality of a trading decision thus relies on the sufficiency of the input data and the suitability ...