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...
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...
Creating an app to use with Charles Schwab is currently a multi step process that takes multiple days. The steps below are for Individual Traders Step 1: Trader API Individual Click on API Products and select Trader API – Individual Request Access and then wait a few days. Once you are approved, then you can create the app Step 2: Creating The App Click Dashboard and then Create...
I have trading bots that are running on Alpaca. I wanted to send myself periodic updates on the performance of the portion. While there are methods one could email via python, I decided Google Apps Script was best for my needs. Google Apps Script Code Email Result
This is part of a series of posts/projects. All posts in the series are Video link of notebook: YouTube Link to notebook: GitHub Reviewing Buy/Sell Strategies Of Various Technical Indicators vs Buy & Hold
This is part of a series of posts/projects. All posts in the series are Video link of notebook: YouTube Link to notebook: GitHub Log Returns Charts Daily Log Returns Relative To Prior Day Log Returns Relative to First Day (Cumulative Returns) Correlation Matrix Monthly Returns Heatmap Relative Returns
This is part of a series of posts/projects. All posts in the series are Video link of notebook: YouTube Link to notebook: GitHub Financial Modelling Prep (FMP) has a great API that I use for my analysis. You can obtain an API key here. Get Income Statement For Apple Please note: the get_fmp_data defaults to income statement, but can pull the following In addition, it takes annual/quarterly as...
In one of my first posts, I showed how to pull the options chain using TD Ameritrade. This version will also get the options chain, but this time from Yahoo Finance. This is more of a webscraping solution. A copy of the notebook can be found on my GitHub and the bulk of the code will be shown below. The code below gets the tickers of the S&P...
The code below does the following A copy of the jupyter notebook can be found here The code below is the libraries used, the function to get stock data, and the ticker_list Below are the summarizing and plotting functions And the code to run this all Resulting summary will look like this
This tool allows Excel to be the main interface for trading through the Alpaca broker Below are two demo videos of the tool This tool allows the following to be done via Excel Some aspects of the tool that can be customized are Known Limitations Please note: this has only been tested on windows based machines Link to tool for purchase
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