Algorithmic trading on Alpaca's Platform - Deep Dive

Advanced course on Implementing algorithmic trading strategies using Alpaca's API

4.50 (154 reviews)

Udemy

platform

English

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Investing & Trading

What you will learn

Algorithmic Trading

Alpaca's API

REST based API architecture

Handling Websocket based architecture

Multi threading application in algorithmic trading

Deploying strategies on cloud (AWS EC2)

Why take this course?

Alpaca has revolutionized trading by providing a commission free, API only stock trading platform. This course will help you gain thorough understanding about Alpaca's API and learn how to use it to implement trading strategy. The course will help you understand key concepts pertaining to API architecture (REST/HTTPS based API, Websocket connection etc.) and will prepare you well to build complex trading strategies on Alpaca's platform. You do not have to create a trading account with Alpaca to explore their API, as they also provide an excellent paper trading account which can help you test your strategies as well.

You can expect to gain the following skills from this course

What, Why & How of API trading
Alpaca's API fundamentals
Extracting historical data
Harnessing streaming tick level data
Incorporating technical indicators using python
Integrating Alpaca with TradingView charting
Backtesting strategies
End to End strategy design and deployment
Using multithreading to implement streaming data based strategies
Sqlite database management
Backtesting strategies
Deploying and running strategies on cloud (AWS EC2)

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Important note - Course prerequisites:

Please note that this course requires basic python proficiency. At the minimum, you should be comfortable with:

basic python data types and format
basic python data structures such as list, dictionary, tuple etc.
how to create python functions
how to implement loops in python
installing and importing libraries

In addition, basic familiarity with finance/trading concepts is also required. Although, I have devoted reasonable time explaining concepts like technical indicators, strategy design, KPIs, risk management etc., some prior experience using these concepts would be very beneficial.

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Reviews

Nicholas

September 21, 2023

I'm currently studying concepts about AI's role in stock trading. This course is already opening up my world to this concept. Great so far!

Kiavash

August 31, 2023

Concepts explained very clearly and problems are broken down to small sub-problems and dealt appropriately

David

March 30, 2023

I am excited to take this course as it is what I am looking for, and Mr. Rasu has already been very helpful.

Goh

October 5, 2022

Mayank was great - the course will get you set up and start working with Alpaca. Thank you for keeping the content up to date with Alpaca v2 and for sharing your knowledge.

Venkat

September 30, 2022

The course is out dated !. There is no V1 API calls used in Alpaca anymore!. But most of the lessons are 80-90 % about the older version and then there is a quick 3-4 minute lesson at the end to show how to convert it to the newer version. Also some of the concepts are never really used in the final strategy, like multi threading and the conversion of back testing to actual strategy requires more explanation.

Brian

August 28, 2022

This was an excellent course! The instructor is extremely knowledgeable and presented the subject in an organized and progressive fashion. It provides great exposure to key commands in python as well as the interface with the alpaca api and data.

Steve

August 16, 2022

Wonderful course and good pace -- very good instruction and crossover between the Python mechanics and the finance mechanics.

KASSI

January 25, 2022

Very Very good course to start a carreer as quant trader, I want to says a big thanks to the instructor

Muhammed

November 13, 2021

Just really need to get to point. history about alpaca and what the company is isnt really necessary.

Alex

September 25, 2021

Mr. Rasu is hands down the most comprehensive algorithmic trading instructor in Udemy. He is extremely proficient, focused and detailed in his explanations. Highly recommended!

Yanshu001

April 26, 2021

I am a manually trader. I almost finish half of the course. This is the best practical algo trading course. Libraries are standard python Libraries, not outdated quantopian's. I learned a lot from Mr Rasu. Fully recommend!

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