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Financial Trading in Python

Intermediate
4.2+
17 reviews
Updated 12/2024
Learn to implement custom trading strategies in Python, backtest them, and evaluate their performance!
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Course Description

Are you fascinated by the financial markets and interested in financial trading? This course will help you to understand why people trade, what the different trading styles are, and how to use Python to implement and test your trading strategies. Start your trading adventure with an introduction to technical analysis, indicators, and signals. You'll learn to build trading strategies by working with real-world financial data such as stocks, foreign exchange, and cryptocurrencies. By the end of this course, you'll be able to implement custom trading strategies in Python, backtest them, and evaluate their performance.

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Intermediate Python for Finance
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Trading Basics

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Technical Indicators

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Trading Strategies

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Performance Evaluation

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  • W. R.
    3 months

    This course details the use of TA-Lib for technical indicators, which is not unique nor complex, but it also uses the bt library for strategy back-testing, which given its power and utility could even justify its own course.

  • Huseyin K.
    about 1 year

    It was a great one

  • Jeronimo F.
    about 1 year

    It is a great course with the essential information abou the topic. After completing it , I started to experiment with the knowledge I learned and to search for more impformation about it .

  • Kyaw A.
    over 1 year

    Rich of information starting from the candlestick that attract me instantly enroll. Two important packages were clearly explain. Thanks DataCamp. I can now work practically in Financial Trading.

  • Romualdo A.
    over 1 year

    Excelent!

"This course details the use of TA-Lib for technical indicators, which is not unique nor complex, but it also uses the bt library for strategy back-testing, which given its power and utility could even justify its own course."

W. R.

"It was a great one"

Huseyin K.

"It is a great course with the essential information abou the topic. After completing it , I started to experiment with the knowledge I learned and to search for more impformation about it ."

Jeronimo F.

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