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Ryan on his journey to learn to create Strategies, Backtesting, and more

Ryan wanted to create his own strategy, backtest, trade live and be a champion in his trading. He explains how Quantra's courses help him learn and implement that....
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How a Chartered Accountant learned Python to automate his trading

The trajectory of how a Chartered Accountant with a strong interest & experience in trading, and will to enhance his skills, learned Python for automating his trading....
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A Momentus Shift from Math to Music and now Algorithms | Dayal's story

Dayal Madan, a Quant Developer from the UK, shares his transition from Financial Mathematics and Music Production to the field of Algorithmic Trading and how he made it possible....
5 min read

Mean Reversion in Time Series: What it is and Trading Strategies

Mean reversion trading strategy is the most known and commonly used strategy. But, what makes it so interesting and why does it work? Find out all about mean reversion in time series in detail, with this blog....
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Fund Management & Algorithmic Trading | How Muhammad made both possible

How can someone from Fund Management learn Algo Trading? EPATian Muhammad's incredible story from Pakistan about Engineering to Finance, ACCA, CFA, FDP & more is a must-read!...
7 min read

Building Technical Indicators in Python

Technical indicators in Python have become the core concept for every algorithmic trader. Learn to create the best technical indicators popularly used by technical analysts to study the price movement....
10 min read

Pandas OHLC: Convert tick by tick data to OHLC data

Convert Tick Data to OHLC Python - Learn to use the resample function from the pandas library in Python to convert tick by tick data into the OHLC format....
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Computer Science to Quantitative Finance: Tushar's Algo Trading journey

Tushar, US, has established himself in Quantitative Finance having an Engineering degree, through the placement cell of EPAT. How did he do it? He shares....
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Performance Metrics, Risk Metrics and Strategy Optimisation: An Overview

Performance metrics, risk metrics and the concept of strategy optimisation - these are the vital components of portfolio risk management. This detailed guide explains it all!...
12 min read

yfinance library: Download Forex Price Data using Python

How do you use the yfinance library to get forex price data for daily or minute frequency? And that too historical? It is easy, simple, and possible with a few lines of code using yfinance, python, and with the guidance from this article!...
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