Implement algorithmic trading strategies on Interactive Broker's platform
What you'll learn
- Algorithmic Trading
- Interactive Broker API
- Quantitative Finance
- Advanced Python Concepts
Requirements
- Interactive Broker Account
- Basic python skills (should be familiar with data types, data structures, loops, functions, installing and importing libraries etc.)
- Intermediate level familiarity with finance/trading
Description
Design and deploy trading strategies on Interactive Broker's platform. Automate every step of your strategy including, extracting data (stock data and fundamental data), performing technical/fundamental analysis, generating signals, placing trades, risk management etc. Gain a thorough understanding of native interactive broker's API.
You can expect to gain the following skills from this course
- API trading
- Advanced python concepts (OOP concepts, multi-threading etc.)
- Extracting historical data
- Extracting fundamental data
- Harnessing streaming tick level data
- Incorporating technical indicators using python
- End to End strategy design and deployment
- Handling asynchronous calls
- Sqlite database management
- Interactive Broker's TWS terminal
- Relevant account settings in IB
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
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Who this course is for:
- Traders looking to automate their strategies on Interactive Broker's platform
- Anyone interested in Algorithmic trading
