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Blog Series: Machine Learning for Options Trading

March 20, 2025

Introduction to the Blog Series Options trading is a sophisticated financial endeavor that requires a deep understanding of market movements, risk management, and statistical probabilities. In this blog series, we explore how machine learning can be leveraged to analyze options data, identify profitable trading patterns, and optimize trading strategies. Using a structured pipeline, we conduct an exploratory data analysis, apply hypothesis testing, and use statistical modeling to uncover...

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Analyzing Stock Data Efficiently: A Benchmarking Study

February 27, 2025

When working with financial data, efficiency matters. Traders, analysts, and data scientists rely on various storage formats—CSV, Parquet, and SQLite—for backtesting trading strategies. But which format offers the best performance? In this post, I benchmark three widely used storage formats while backtesting Apple Inc. (AAPL) stock data. The goal? To determine which format provides the fastest execution time while ensuring accuracy across different trading strategies. The Experiment I...

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Yahoo Finance Screener With TA-Lib

January 3, 2025

I wanted to show how you could create a python screener using yahoo finance data with TA-Lib. A link to the notebook can be found on my GitHub. Sample Code Sample Output Next Steps

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Alpaca Bollinger Bands Trading Bot NOT Using TA Lib

December 30, 2024

This is a continuation in a series to show working examples of trading bots using Alpaca. A link to the notebook can be found on GitHub. This trading bot streams websocket data, calculates Bollinger Bands for signals, and then buys/sells accordingly. It also logs the data so you can review what’s going on too. An alternative version of this can be found here where the main difference is...

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Alpaca Bollinger Bands Trading Bot Using TA Lib

December 30, 2024

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Alpaca RSI Trading Bot Based On 1H Yahoo Finance Data

December 30, 2024

This is the second post in a series to show working examples of trading bots using Alpaca. A link to the notebook can be found on GitHub. First I am going to provide a high level overview of the bot and then show a few key parts of the code. The bot does the following: RSI & Signal Calculations Get Data & Orders Running It Output In Terminal

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Alpaca Basic Trading Bot Based On Time

December 30, 2024

This is the first post in a series to show working examples of trading bots using Alpaca. A link to the notebook can be found on GitHub. First I am going to provide a high level overview of the bot and then show a few key parts of the code. The bot does the following: Assets, Buy Wait Time, Cycles Code: Run All, Trading Strategy (ie when to...

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Alpaca Websockets

December 30, 2024

You can leverage websockets and stream data for stocks, crypto, and options using Alpaca. Below, I’ll show the stock websocket example in full and then show the different code to use for crypto and websockets. The main difference between each is the uri used and the symbols. Copies to each py file can be found on my GitHub. In later posts/videos, I’ll build upon these examples and show...

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Algorithmic Trading Framework

December 30, 2024

I wanted to create a few posts/videos working towards a well thought out algorithmic trading framework. It will start off quite basic and then build over a series of a few examples of different trading bots using Alpaca. None of these should be taken as trading advice. This is purely to show working examples that can be used for inspiration. The following trading bots have been created and...

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Charles Schwab API – Authentication & Sample Calls

May 1, 2024

Once you have an app created on Charles Schwab creating an app, you can start to use it for some API calls. The full code available on my GitHub. I’ll share some key parts of the code. Authentication & Key Functions Client ID and Client Secret can be found by clicking into your app and get ‘App Key’ & ‘Secret’ Authentication Flow When you run this, a browser...

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