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Learn Algorithmic Trading

By : Sebastien Donadio, Sourav Ghosh
Book Image

Learn Algorithmic Trading

By: Sebastien Donadio, Sourav Ghosh

Overview of this book

It’s now harder than ever to get a significant edge over competitors in terms of speed and efficiency when it comes to algorithmic trading. Relying on sophisticated trading signals, predictive models and strategies can make all the difference. This book will guide you through these aspects, giving you insights into how modern electronic trading markets and participants operate. You’ll start with an introduction to algorithmic trading, along with setting up the environment required to perform the tasks in the book. You’ll explore the key components of an algorithmic trading business and aspects you’ll need to take into account before starting an automated trading project. Next, you’ll focus on designing, building and operating the components required for developing a practical and profitable algorithmic trading business. Later, you’ll learn how quantitative trading signals and strategies are developed, and also implement and analyze sophisticated trading strategies such as volatility strategies, economic release strategies, and statistical arbitrage. Finally, you’ll create a trading bot from scratch using the algorithms built in the previous sections. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with electronic trading markets and have learned to implement, evaluate and safely operate algorithmic trading strategies in live markets.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page

Connecting to Trading Exchanges

At this point, we have a good understanding of how to write a trading system and writing the code for all the critical components. We went into detail about book building, creating trading signals, and getting a market response.

In this chapter, we will introduce the component that's in charge of communicating with the outside world and the gateway. We will look at the different functionalities of this component and describe the different types of protocols that we will encounter. Finally, we will implement a gateway that will connect to a real liquidity provider.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Making a trading system trade with exchanges
  • Reviewing the Communication API
  • Receiving price updates
  • Sending orders and receiving market responses