Quant Mashup - Jon.IO Placing your first Forex trade with Python [Jon.IO]Update: I updated the code so it works with Oanda's new API. Get it here Time to talk about brokers, how to place a trade programmatically and most importantly how not to get scammed. This is the third part of the series: How to build your own algotrading platform. A broker is nothing more than(...) Trading Ethereum: Making 10% every 20 minutes [Jon.IO]This is more of a "How to build your own algotrading strategy - the Ethereum edition" and not a "make money fast" blog post. It is also a real example with real returns (and real production errors that cost me money) where you can see how to identify opportunities, why(...) Machine Beats Human: Machine Learning in Forex [Jon.IO]Machine learning and trading is a very interesting subject. It is also a subject where you can spend tons of time writing code and reading papers and then a kid can beat you while playing Mario Kart. In the nexts posts, we are going to talk about: Optimize entries and exits. This and only this could(...) You don't need to be a scientist to build a backtesting algotrading system in Python [Jon.IO]This is the another post of the series: How to build your own algotrading platform. Last time we talked about The "for-looper" backtester (as I love to call them). Now it's time to see some code! We said that we have something like that: Building a backtesting system in Python: or how I lost $3400 in two hours [Jon.IO]This is the another post of the series: How to build your own algotrading platform. Building a backtest system is actually pretty easy. Easy to screw up I mean. Even though there are tons of excellent libraries out there (and we'll go through them at some point), I always like doing this on my(...)