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Alex Krishtop
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Alexey Krishtop is a quantitative trader and researcher with 20 years of experience in developing automated trading solutions. He is currently the head of trading and research at Edgesense Technologies and CTO at ForexVox Ltd. He develops market models and trading algorithms for FX, commodities, and crypto. He was one of the first traders who started using Python as the ultimate environment for quantitative trading and suggested a few approaches to developing trading apps that, today, have become standard among many quant traders. He has worked as a director of education with the Algorithmic Traders Association, where he developed an exhaustive course in systematic and algo trading, which covers the worlds of both quantitative models and discretionary approaches.
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Simple plots of market data

In the following examples, we will use historical data only. We will learn how to plot live data received from a broker later in this chapter.

There are many ways to read and handle market data, some of which were considered in Chapter 5, Retrieving and Handling Market Data with Python. Now, we are going to learn some alternative approaches so that you can best choose what suits your current research and development needs.

Let’s start with the most straightforward approach, which uses only native Python data structures. As we saw in Chapter 5, the preferred way of storing and manipulating market data is a dictionary because of its full compatibility with the JSON standard and the ability to extract the necessary data by keywords. We will start with dictionaries as well:

  1. First, we still need to do some imports:
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import csv

The csv module contains very convenient methods to read and parse comma-separated...

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Alex Krishtop

Alexey Krishtop is a quantitative trader and researcher with 20 years of experience in developing automated trading solutions. He is currently the head of trading and research at Edgesense Technologies and CTO at ForexVox Ltd. He develops market models and trading algorithms for FX, commodities, and crypto. He was one of the first traders who started using Python as the ultimate environment for quantitative trading and suggested a few approaches to developing trading apps that, today, have become standard among many quant traders. He has worked as a director of education with the Algorithmic Traders Association, where he developed an exhaustive course in systematic and algo trading, which covers the worlds of both quantitative models and discretionary approaches.
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