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Python Trading

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This project aims to gather negotiation strategies aimed at the financial market, so that people can take as an example the strategies provided in the project.

💻 Prerequisites

Language Version Python >= 3.8.
OS Linux / Windows / Mac.

🚀 Install

First, clone project repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/preduus/python-trading.git

Creating virtual environment

$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.8 venv && source venv/bin/activate
OR
$ python3 -m venv $(pwd)/venv && source venv/bin/activate

Install project requirements:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Testing

$ pytest -s
=========================================================================================================== test session starts ===========================================================================================================
platform linux -- Python 3.8.10, pytest-6.2.5, py-1.11.0, pluggy-1.0.0
rootdir: ~/python-trading
collected 9 items                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

tests/test_chinese_example.py ...
tests/test_crossover_example.py ...
tests/test_rsi_example.py ...

============================================================================================================ 9 passed in 0.43s ============================================================================================================

☕ Usage

To see trading strategies working, run:

$ python examples.py

In the example.py file, the algorithm simulates real price movements. The asset used to exemplify was the EURUSD.

📫 Contribute to project

The project needs a lot of input for us to add more trading strategies, if you feel like helping or have a promising strategy idea, please open an issue and help us.

Fork the project.
Create a branch: git checkout -b feature/<branch_name>.
Commit your code changes: git commit -m '<message>'
Push to your work branch: git push origin feature/<branch_name>
Open a pull request.

Alternatively, see on GitHub docs How to create a pull request.