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Financial Trading in Python

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65 reviews
Updated 05/2025
Learn to implement custom trading strategies in Python, backtest them, and evaluate their performance!
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Are you fascinated by the financial markets and interested in financial trading? This course will help you to understand why people trade, what the different trading styles are, and how to use Python to implement and test your trading strategies. Start your trading adventure with an introduction to technical analysis, indicators, and signals. You'll learn to build trading strategies by working with real-world financial data such as stocks, foreign exchange, and cryptocurrencies. By the end of this course, you'll be able to implement custom trading strategies in Python, backtest them, and evaluate their performance.

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Intermediate Python for Finance
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Trading Basics

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Technical Indicators

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Trading Strategies

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Performance Evaluation

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