Top "Algorithmic-trading" questions

Algorithmic trading is a technique of trading financial assets through an algorithm which has been fully or partially automated into a computer program.

Generate Unique ID from Alphanumeric String

I need to generate a UNIQUE id (int only) from an Alphanumeric string. e.g. I have security id = 'ABC123…

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Start, End and Duration of Maximum Drawdown in Python

Given a time series, I want to calculate the maximum drawdown, and I also want to locate the beginning and …

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How to send/receive data to/from MetaTrader Ternminal 4 with JAVA (or anything!)

I have been working on an algorithm ( Not mine, I am just modifying it ) that predicts when to buy and …

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How fast is state of the art HFT trading systems today?

All the time you hear about high frequency trading (HFT) and how damn fast the algorithms are. But I'm wondering …

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Getting stock's historical data

We would like to check on stock's historical data, using HTTP request, and get JSON. Using the yahoo API ,I …

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ValueError: Length of passed values is 7, index implies 0

I am trying to get 1minute open, high, low, close, volume values from bitmex using ccxt. everything seems to be …

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How to test my FIX client? Is there a fake FIX exchange out there that I can use?

I have implemented my own FIX client, something like QuickFIX. Now I need to test it. Is there a fake …

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What is the equivalent of console.log in pine-script?

How does one console.log variables, or the results of functions in pine-script? I'd like to convert a pine-script script …

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Python import table data from Mac .numbers file

I'm new to Python and I'm trying to crunch some numbers. Sample attached: Open High Low Close Sample Data I …

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Using python to fill in text boxes on websites, and clicking button to download

If given a website like e.g. http://www.barchart.com/historicaldata.php, is there a way to fill in …

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