You're reading from Getting Started with Forex Trading Using Python

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616857

Pages 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

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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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Who this book is for

This book is for anyone familiar with Python programming who wants to test the waters of algo trading. This is not a Python tutorial: I assume that you are well familiar with the language and object-oriented programming. No special knowledge in programming is required though, and any time a new type of object or structure is used, it is explained in detail.

No knowledge about markets and trading is required and nor is any prior experience in trading. I tried to explain the contents in the most simple terms but without simplifying the subject itself to help you expand your trading vocabulary and get a clear understanding of the meaning of the most essential terms.

At the same time, Python is used only to provide working examples of the concepts considered in the book. No special programming techniques specific to Python are used. This means that you can easily port the code or develop something on your own in other languages, so the book can also be quite useful for traders who use other platforms, such as MetaTrader.