Algorithmic Trading A-Z with Python and Machine Learning

Technology has become an asset in finance. Among the hottest programming languages, you’ll find Python becoming the technology of choice for Finance.

This well thought out course takes a step by step approach to teach you how to use Python for creating trading bots and performing financial analysis on a day-to-day basis. You will be armed with all the necessary programming tools and techniques to develop a full-fledged trading bot that numerous investors/traders can utilize. You will learn basic features such as using a financial calculator to perform financial valuations, simply by interacting with the bot. You will also explore the advances in the techniques developed for algorithmic trading and financial analysis based on the recent breakthroughs in machine learning to gain hands-on experience in designing and building financial machine learning models.

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Building Trading Algorithms with Python, will enable you to get started with creating a traditional asset trading bot. It will arm you with all the necessary programming tools and techniques to develop a full-fledged trading bot that numerous investors/traders can utilize. It covers general features such as using a financial calculator to do conversions, simply by interacting with a bot. Your customers, using your trading, the bot can look up recent trends to make informed predictions and see what others have been trading, and how much.

In the second course, Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading Bots with Python, you will gain a solid understanding of financial terminology and methodology with a hands-on experience in designing and building financial machine learning models. You will be able to evaluate and validate different algorithmic trading strategies. You will also be provided with a dedicated section on backtesting which is the holy grail of algorithmic trading and is an essential key to successful deployment of reliable algorithms.

By the end of this course, you will be able to perform financial valuations, build algorithmic and forex trading bots, and perform financial analysis in different areas of finance.

Meet Your Expert(s):

We have the best work of the following esteemed author(s) to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

• Harish Garg, founder of BignumWorks Software LLP, is a data scientist and a lead software developer with 17 years of software industry experience. BignumWorks is an India-based software consultancy that provides consultancy services in software development and technical training. Harish has worked for McAfeeIntel for 11+ years. He is an expert in creating data visualizations using R, Python, and web-based visualization libraries.
• Mithun Lakshmanaswamy of BignumWorks Software LLP has been developing applications in Python for 9+ years. He has written enterprise-level distributed applications that are deployed on scores of servers and have the ability to support thousands of users simultaneously. Some of the applications he has developed are related to parsing millions of virus definitions, analyzing network packets from an enterprise setup, and so on. He is also quite proficient in teaching technical concepts and is quite involved with his current organization’s training programmes. He has worked on multiple projects working with Python, AWS and so on, implementing the concepts of concurrent and distributed computing.
• Mustafa Qamar-ud-Din is a machine learning engineer with over 10 years of experience in the software development industry. He is a specialist in image processing, machine learning and deep learning. He worked with many startups and understands the dynamics of agile methodologies and the challenges they face on a day to day basis. He is also quite aware of the professional skills which the recruiters are looking for when making hiring decisions.