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Algorithmically Detecting (and Trading) Technical Chart Patterns with Python
Ever wondered how to programmatically define technical patterns in market data? Here is how to define chart patterns.
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Easily Visualize the Correlation of Your Portfolio in Python
In this article, I will show how you can make “roll-your-own” visualizations, using the Alpaca API with Python.
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Quantopian vs Alpaca — When Paper Trading Your Algorithms
Comparing Quantopian and Alpaca. Back-testing and paper-trading are the important final steps to the development of any trading algorithms, allowing you to verify its results on out of sample data.
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Calculating Cost of Algorithmic Trading
In recent years, both market spread and trading commissions have dropped dramatically. How much do these costs affect the profitability of algorithmic trading?
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For Excel Persons - How to Pull Market Data with VBA
If you know nothing about coding, the VBA with Excel solution is a good way to dive into automated trading on a familiar platform without learning different development environments and software.
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VBA & Excel with Alpaca Trading API - The GET Tutorial
This tutorial will focus on GET requests, which simply ask the endpoint for some information (like current market positions for an account) of your Alpaca account by using VBA and Excel.
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An Introduction to Market Data APIs and their Usage
Data is a critical component of any trading or investing strategy, and that holds true for the casual, once-a-quarter investor to the professional day trader.
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Exploring the Differences Between U.S. Stock Market Data Feeds
An important but often underappreciated facet of algo trading is market data. After all, data is what an algorithm uses to make buying and selling decisions.
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Easily Get Tick-Level Market Data in Python with Alpaca API
Grab tick-level market data using Python with Alpaca API before tackling the bigger project of building and implementing an automated trading strategy.
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Using Insomnia REST Client for Alpaca’s Trading API
Using Insomnia REST Client for Alpaca Stock Trading API. Testing the code with API means having a tool that is able to make the API request and return the response.
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Using the Command Line to Buy/Sell Stocks
For you who feel like living on your command line. This post helps you to try out managing your stock trading from the command line.
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Ultimate List of Automated Trading Strategies You Should Know
There are many use cases for automated trading, particularly when considering different time horizons, tools, and objectives. This is the part 1 of series “Ultimate List of Automated Trading Strategies.”