num_pages: 230
description: Learn to trade algorithmically with your existing brokerage from data management to strategy optimization to order execution using free and publicly available data. Connect to your brokerages API and the source code is plug-and-play.Automated Trading with R explains automated trading starting with its mathematics and moving to its computation and execution. You will gain a unique insight into the mechanics and computational considerations taken in building a back-tester strategy optimizer and fully functional trading platform. The platform built in this book can serve as a complete replacement for commercially available platforms used by retail traders and small funds. Software components are strictly decoupled and easily scalable providing opportunity to substitute any data source trading algorithm or brokerage. This book What You Will Learn Who This Book Is For Traders/practitioners at the retail or small fund level with at least an undergraduate background in finance or computer science; graduate level finance or data science students
language: English
title: Automated Trading with R: Quantitative Research and Platform Development
publisher: Apress