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Published inMar 2023
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781804616857
Edition1st Edition
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Alex Krishtop
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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Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

active trading 5

aggregation 50, 51

algorithmic (algo) 197

algo trading

pros and cons 345, 346

risks 343

alpha 198-200

in investment and trading 306-308

alpha classics 208

breakouts 214-216

mean reversion 210-214

trend following 208-210

arbitrage 5, 51, 216, 217

arbitrage strategies 37

arbitrageurs 51

asset 4

associated risks

profiting 220

automated trading 7

average trade 298, 299

averaging down 342

B

backends 158

backtesting 22, 23, 260, 261

equity curve 269-276

in Python 23

order execution, emulating 266-269

purpose 23

statistics 269-276

threads, syncing with events 261-263

with historical data feed 264-266

bank indices 202-204

bar charts

creating, with mplfinance 175

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Author (1)

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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.
Read more about Alex Krishtop