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Product type Book

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616857

Pages 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Financial Technology

Author (1):

Alex Krishtop

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to FX Trading Strategy Development

2. Chapter 1: Developing Trading Strategies – Why They Are Different

3. Chapter 2: Using Python for Trading Strategies

4. Chapter 3: FX Market Overview from a Developer's Standpoint

5. Part 2: General Architecture of a Trading Application and A Detailed Study of Its Components

6. Chapter 4: Trading Application: What’s Inside?

7. Chapter 5: Retrieving and Handling Market Data with Python

8. Chapter 6: Basics of Fundamental Analysis and Its Possible Use in FX Trading

9. Chapter 7: Technical Analysis and Its Implementation in Python

10. Chapter 8: Data Visualization in FX Trading with Python

11. Part 3: Orders, Trading Strategies, and Their Performance

12. Chapter 9: Trading Strategies and Their Core Elements

13. Chapter 10: Types of Orders and Their Simulation in Python

14. Chapter 11: Backtesting and Theoretical Performance

15. Part 4: Strategies, Performance Analysis, and Vistas

16. Chapter 12: Sample Strategy – Trend-Following

17. Chapter 13: To Trade or Not to Trade – Performance Analysis

18. Chapter 14: Where to Go Now?

19. Index

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