Algorithmic Trading: Backtest, Optimize & Automate in Python
Offered By: Udemy
Course Description
Overview
What you'll learn:
- Use Python to Automate your Cryptocurrency Trading
- Load Historical Data and Backtest your Strategy
- Optimize your Strategy to Find the Best Parameters to Use
- Run the Strategy in Simulation or Live
- Connect to Multiple Cryptocurrency Exchanges
- Be able to work on a Virtual Environment
- Use Open Source Code Freqtrade
- Communicate with the Strategy through your Phone
Learn to fully automate your cryptocurrency trading with this course!
You will learn:
1) How to use freqtrade (it's an open source code)
2) Use a Virtual Machine (we provide you one with all the code on it, all you need to do is download it)
3) Learn How to code any strategy in freqtrade (We show you how to code a strategy and show you a repository with other strategies)
4) Backtest a strategy so you can see how it would have performed in the past
5) Optimize a strategy to find the best parameters to get the best reward/risk ratio
6) Do a walk-forward analysis to see how a strategy would perform with out-of-sample data (to minimize overfitting)
7) Run the strategy with paper money (Extremely important step, in order to test out your code without risking any real capital)
8) Run the strategy with real money
9) Connect the code to Telegram so you can communicate with it with your phone (You will be able to start or stop your trading algorithm from anywhere as long as you have your phone with you)
No python knowledge?
No worries there is a Python primer in the course to get you up to speed on the language:)
See you in the course!
Taught by
Mohsen Hassan, Ilyass Tabiai and bloom team
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