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Algorithmic trading on Alpaca's Platform - Deep Dive

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Alpaca has revolutionized trading by providing a commission free, API only stock trading platform. This course will help you gain thorough understanding about Alpaca's API and learn how to use it to implement trading strategy. The course will help you understand key concepts pertaining to API architecture (REST/HTTPS based API, Websocket connection etc.) and will prepare you well to build complex trading strategies on Alpaca's platform. You do not have to create a trading account with Alpaca to explore their API, as they also provide an excellent paper trading account which can help you test your strategies as well.You can expect to gain the following skills from this courseWhat, Why & How of API tradingAlpaca's API fundamentalsExtracting historical dataHarnessing streaming tick level dataIncorporating technical indicators using pythonIntegrating Alpaca with TradingView chartingBacktesting strategiesEnd to End strategy design and deploymentUsing multithreading to implement streaming data based strategiesSqlite database managementBacktesting strategiesDeploying and running strategies on cloud (AWS EC2)#############################################################################################Important note - Course prerequisites:Please note that this course requires basic python proficiency. At the minimum, you should be comfortable with:basic python data types and formatbasic python data structures such as list, dictionary, tuple etc. how to create python functionshow to implement loops in pythoninstalling and importing libraries  In addition, basic familiarity with finance/trading concepts is also required. Although, I have devoted reasonable time explaining

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What you'll learn

Understanding the fundamentals of Alpaca's API
Extracting historical data
Harnessing streaming tick-level data
Incorporating technical indicators using Python
Backtesting strategies
Designing and deploying end-to-end trading strategies
Implementing multithreading for streaming data
Managing SQLite databases

Course objectives

To provide a comprehensive understanding of API trading concepts
To enable students to implement complex trading strategies on Alpaca's platform
To prepare learners for real-world trading scenarios

Machine Learning #python #trading strategies #cloud deployment #multithreading #backtesting #streaming data #sqlite #historical data #technical indicators #alpaca #api trading

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