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My algorithmic Trading journey

Like many i used to manually watch and trade stocks, ETFs. Its non-productive and involves our emotions in trading decisions. So I wanted to automate trading. Initially used Trailing Stop and Limit orders. But they can automate only in a prescribed way. I started thinking about a way to trade programatically, where we have more control. My quest pointed to Zipline, a python algorithmic trading library. It support backtesting (testing algorithm with historic data) and most importantly supports live trading In this blog, I will walk you through my algorithmic trading journey. Zipline Installation From  https://www.zipline.io/index.html , I see it only supports python 2.7 or Python 3.5 Since python 2 was sun set on Jan 1 2020, there is no point in trying it. I went ahead with Python 3. For programming, installed latest Ubuntu 19.10 in a virtual machine . Ubuntu 19.10 comes bundled with Python 3.7.5. You can check your python version by typing python3  -V ...
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Artist got automated

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BIG ONE COMING ?

On July 4 morning, a mild earthquake measuring 4.0 rocked CA at about 10 AM. Personally I didnt experienced it and came to know about it only when another earthquake measuring 6.6 hit. Since moving to CA, it isnt my first earthquake. I experienced few before.  Just like before, googled to see whats going, enjoyed fun in Twitter and continued with my day as usual. Next day evening,  I experienced something bigger.  This one is different from previous ones. It keeps shacking for a while. By 9 PM PT, it's subdued but a ton of questions racing through my mind..  Its night time and we will be in middle of sleep. Will it be safe going in ?  This one is differently bigger than yesterday. Will the next one going to be bigger ? If yes, how soon ? I started searching for answers, but all i can see is " WELCOME TO CA " messages. I am not new to CA and living here for a while. This isn't felt normal. So I started se...
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