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Published inMar 2023
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Alex Krishtop
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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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Trading app architecture – revised and improved

In Chapter 1, Developing Trading Strategies – Why They Are Different, we proposed a generalized architecture of a trading application. In brief, it consists of the following components:

  • Data receiver: Something that retrieves live data from the market or historical data stored locally; see Chapter 5, Retrieving and Handling Market Data with Python
  • Data cleanup: A component that eliminates non-market prices; see Chapter 1, Developing Trading Strategies – Why They Are Different
  • Trading logic: The brains of the trading app that make trading decisions (see Chapter 6, Basics of Fundamental Analysis and Its Possible Use in FX Trading, Chapter 7, Technical Analysis and Its Implementation in Python, and Chapter 9, Trading Strategies and Their Core Elements), frequently with integrated pre-trade risk management
  • Ordering interface: A component that receives trading signals from the trading logic, converts...
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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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