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The act of buying and selling financial instruments, such as money markets spot instruments, stocks, bonds, commodities, virtual currencies, indices, futures, options, CFD-s and other derivatives, performed on a for-profit basis.

Trading in general and speculative trading are a form of participation in a process of mutually beneficial exchange.

Speculative trading is a knowingly speculative, for-profit, participation in a multi-layer scene of sell-side and buy-side market participants ( liquidity providers ), brokerage entities / mediators, market regulators ( where territorially applicable and legally enforced ) and retail traders.

Markets typically offer trading in both Buy ( a.k.a. Long ) and Sell ( Short ) contract positions for various financial instruments such as:

  • money markets spot contracts,
  • ETF contracts,
  • virtual currencies,
  • stocks,
  • bonds,
  • commodities,
  • indices,
  • futures,
  • options,
  • options on index,
  • non-deliverable swaps,
  • CFD-s and other derivatives.
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Kraken Exchange API: AddOrder's expiretm parameter

Does the API AddOrder() command support expiretm for limit orders? I always get an EGeneral:Invalid arguments:expiretm error when I set this parameter. I tried to expire 3 seconds from now with the following settings: 1) expiretm = 3 #…
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.NET: Can't get correct RSI and MACD values from TA-Lib

I'm trying to use TA-Lib for technical analysis. I downloaded TA-Lib-Core Nuget package for .NET. Unfortunately, I can't find any API documentation so some method parameters are a bit of mystery. I downloaded historical data for AMD between…
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What is the meaning of the values returned from trader_bbands()?

I am using the trader library of PHP. I use the trader_bbands() function $bBand = trader_bbands( $NumberArray, 25, TRADER_REAL_MIN, TRADER_REAL_MIN, …
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Clojure for trading strategies

Is anybody using Clojure for developing automated trading strategies? What is your experience? I am anticipating learning Clojure and wanted to know whether or not I could use it in this context. If there are any resources for using it in this…
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How can I download options data from yahoo using Perl?

I am trying to get yahoo options data into mysql using perl. I found modules to download stock prices, but not options data. Anyone know what would be the easiest way to do that? If I have to roll my own, what modules should I use? Thanks, CP
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Stock chart pattern finder with Javascript (Node)

I am building a little stock trader program, that try's to find patterns in (many) forex charts. There is a lot of information on the web, about the most used patterns. 1:…
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Transactions reshaping from long to wide, joining Buy and Sell dataframes

I have buy and sell transactions in long format and I want to transform it to wide format. Look at example: For every BUY transaction of some ticker must exist SELL transaction of the same ticker which closes position. If SELL transaction don't…
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Sample call to Interactive Brokers for a currency pair?

I'm attempting to run Interactive Broker's included code sample. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/download/JavaAPIGettingStarted.pdf On about page 42 it details how to pull market data feeds. My question is, has anyone successfully put in the…
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Developing a Java Trading Application: do patterns/frameworks exist for defining trading rules?

I am in the process of designing a trading application which will use a Market's API to place orders on the Market. This isn't a complex high performance algorithmic trading application of the kind found in investment banks. This is just a small…
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How to connect to TT X_TRADER API in order to create an automated trading system using python?

I've seen this question posted several times in the interal development forums and thus wanted to provide a quick example of how this can be achieved in python in no time.
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Fix OrigClOrdID (tag 41) in a chain of replaces. Is it the very first one of the order OR the previous one in the chain?

So whenever I want to change (reduce) the quantity of my order (OrderCancelReplaceRequest) I have to send a new ClOrdID and the original ClOrdID (tag 41). Ok, so let's say I change the quantity for a second time. Does the original ClOrdID (tag 41) I…
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How do I devise a python trading algorithm that identifies pivot highs and lows to inform breakout points?

I want to create an algorithm, which will help me point the breakout points in the trading and devise my strategy accordingly. My code: import pandas as pd import pandas_ta as ta import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np from statistics…
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Is it possible to align asset performance by trading session in python?

I have time series data in one minute intervals for the last 7 business days and I want to calculate and plot the cumulative change by trading session like this: The 23-Jun 'Asia' trading session overlaps two days (i.e. 23:00 on 22-Jun > 07:00 on…
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Available data in TradingView's exported chart data file

To back-test a trading strategy, I use the replay feature in trading view and mark my trades by adding a "long position" or "short position" from the left panel. Like this: I need to save the data (chart data including the positions, or any other…
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TradingView STC vs any python STC

I am trying to use in a trading strategy the STC indicator, but I can not find out why its not working properly. The chart that I am using is BTC/USDT on UTC as a timeframe. Chart time: 01 Feb 22 - 16:20 UTC ------------------- TradingView:…
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