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Financial Trading in R

IntermediateSkill Level
4.8+
23 reviews
Updated 09/2024
This course covers the basics of financial trading and how to use quantstrat to build signal-based trading strategies.
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Course Description

This course will cover the basics on financial trading and will give you an overview of how to use quantstrat to build signal-based trading strategies in R. It will teach you how to set up a quantstrat strategy, apply transformations of market data called indicators, create signals based on the interactions of those indicators, and even simulate orders. Lastly, it will explain how to analyze your results both from statistical and visual perspectives.

Prerequisites

Intermediate R for Finance
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Trading basics

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A boilerplate for quantstrat strategies

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3

Indicators

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Analyzing results

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  • Daanial
    3 days

    nice one

  • Carlos Andrés
    7 days

  • Wend-kouni Thomas Rodolphe
    12 days

  • Santiago
    23 days

  • Vitalii
    29 days

  • René Alfonso
    about 1 month

"nice one"

Daanial

Carlos Andrés

Wend-kouni Thomas Rodolphe

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