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Published inMar 2023
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781804616857
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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 application with live data feed

As always, we start by doing some imports:

import json
import threading
import queue
from datetime import datetime
from websocket import create_connection

Next, we create a class that contains the strategy metadata (see the Trading logic component section):

class tradingSystemMetadata:
    def __init__(self):
        self.initial_capital = 10000
        self.leverage = 30
        self.market_position = 0
        self.equity = 0
        self.last_price = 0
        self.equity_timeseries = []

Now, we prepare three (!) tick data queues:

tick_feed_0 = queue.Queue()
tick_feed_1 = queue.Queue()
tick_feed_2 = queue.Queue()

Why three? This is one of the solutions to the thread...

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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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