Python for Algorithmic Trading Cookbook

Recipes for designing, building, and deploying algorithmic trading strategies with Python

Author: Jason Strimpel

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Explore Python code recipes to use market data for designing and deploying algorithmic trading strategies.

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Explore Python code recipes to use market data for designing and deploying algorithmic trading strategies.

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Harness the power of Python libraries to transform freely available financial market data into algorithmic trading strategies and deploy them into a live trading environmentKey FeaturesFollow practical Python recipes to acquire, visualize, and store market data for market researchDesign, backtest, and evaluate the performance of trading strategies using professional techniquesDeploy trading strategies built in Python to a live trading environment with API connectivityPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionDiscover how Python has made algorithmic trading accessible to non-professionals with unparalleled expertise and practical insights from Jason Strimpel, founder of PyQuant News and a seasoned professional with global experience in trading and risk management. This book guides you through from the basics of quantitative finance and data acquisition to advanced stages of backtesting and live trading.Detailed recipes will help you leverage the cutting-edge OpenBB SDK to gather freely available data for stocks, options, and futures, and build your own research environment using lightning-fast storage techniques like SQLite, HDF5, and ArcticDB. This book shows you how to use SciPy and statsmodels to identify alpha factors and hedge risk, and construct momentum and mean-reversion factors. You’ll optimize strategy parameters with walk-forward optimization using VectorBT and construct a production-ready backtest using Zipline Reloaded. Implementing all that you’ve learned, you’ll set up and deploy your algorithmic trading strategies in a live trading environment using the Interactive Brokers API, allowing you to stream tick-level data, submit orders, and retrieve portfolio details.By the end of this algorithmic trading book, you'll not only have grasped the essential concepts but also the practical skills needed to implement and execute sophisticated trading strategies using Python.What you will learnAcquire and process freely available market data with the OpenBB PlatformBuild a research environment and populate it with financial market dataUse machine learning to identify alpha factors and engineer them into signalsUse VectorBT to find strategy parameters using walk-forward optimizationBuild production-ready backtests with Zipline Reloaded and evaluate factor performanceSet up the code framework to connect and send an order to Interactive BrokersWho this book is forPython for Algorithmic Trading Cookbook equips traders, investors, and Python developers with code to design, backtest, and deploy algorithmic trading strategies. You should have experience investing in the stock market, knowledge of Python data structures, and a basic understanding of using Python libraries like pandas. This book is also ideal for individuals with Python experience who are already active in the market or are aspiring to be.

About the Author

Jason Strimpel is the founder of PyQuant News and co-founder of Trade Blotter, with a career spanning over 20 years in trading, risk management, and data science. He previously traded for a Chicago-based hedge fund, served as a risk manager at JPMorgan, and managed production risk technology for an energy derivatives trading firm in London. In Singapore, Jason served as the APAC CIO for an agricultural trading firm and built the data science team for a global metals trading firm. He holds degrees in finance and economics and a Master's in quantitative finance from the Illinois Institute of Technology. His career has taken him across America, Europe, and Asia. Jason shares his expertise through the PyQuant Newsletter, social media, and teaches the course "Getting Started With Python for Quant Finance."