Algorithmic trading on Alpaca’s Platform – Deep Dive

Alpaca 通过提供免佣金、仅限 API 的股票交易平台，彻底改变了交易方式。本课程将帮助您深入了解 Alpaca 的 API，并学习如何使用它来实施交易策略。本课程将帮助您了解与 API 架构（基于 REST/HTTPS 的 API、Websocket 连接等）相关的关键概念，并为您在 Alpaca 平台上构建复杂的交易策略做好准备。您不必使用 Alpaca 创建交易账户来探索他们的 API，因为他们还提供了一个出色的模拟交易账户，可以帮助您测试您的策略。

您可以期望从本课程中获得以下技能

API 交易的内容、原因和方式

Alpaca 的 API 基础

提取历史数据

利用流式滴答级别数据

使用 python 结合技术指标

将 Alpaca 与 TradingView 图表集成

回测策略

端到端战略设计和部署

使用多线程实现基于流数据的策略

Sqlite 数据库管理

回测策略

在云上部署和运行策略 (AWS EC2)

重要说明 – 课程先决条件

请注意，本课程需要基本的 Python 能力。至少，您应该对

基本的python数据类型和格式

基本的python数据结构，如列表、字典、元组等。

如何创建python函数

如何在python中实现循环

安装和导入库

此外，还需要对金融/交易概念有基本的了解。虽然，我花了合理的时间解释技术指标、战略设计、KPI、风险管理等概念，但使用这些概念的一些先前经验将非常有益。

本课程适用于
希望在 Alpaca 平台上实现策略自动化的交易者
任何对算法交易感兴趣的人

Updated 06/2022
Genre: eLearning | MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 7.32 GB | Duration: 90 lectures • 13h 28m

Advanced course on Implementing algorithmic trading strategies using Alpaca’s API

What you’ll learn
Algorithmic Trading
Alpaca’s API
REST based API architecture
Handling Websocket based architecture
Multi threading application in algorithmic trading
Deploying strategies on cloud (AWS EC2)

Requirements
Basic python skills (should be familiar with data types, data structures, loops, functions, installing and importing libraries etc.)
Basic familiarity with finance/trading
Description
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 course

What, Why & How of API trading

Alpaca’s API fundamentals

Extracting historical data

Harnessing streaming tick level data

Incorporating technical indicators using python

Integrating Alpaca with TradingView charting

Backtesting strategies

End to End strategy design and deployment

Using multithreading to implement streaming data based strategies

Sqlite database management

Backtesting strategies

Deploying 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 format

basic python data structures such as list, dictionary, tuple etc.

how to create python functions

how to implement loops in python

installing and importing libraries

In addition, basic familiarity with finance/trading concepts is also required. Although, I have devoted reasonable time explaining concepts like technical indicators, strategy design, KPIs, risk management etc., some prior experience using these concepts would be very beneficial.

Who this course is for
Traders looking to automate their strategies on Alpaca’s platform
Anyone interested in Algorithmic trading