Building Trading Bots Using Java

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4842-2519-6
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 4569 g

Build an automated currency trading bot from scratch with java. In this book, you will learn about the nitty-gritty of automated trading and have a closer look at Java, the Spring Framework, event-driven programming, and other open source APIs, notably Google's Guava API. And of course, development will all be test-driven with unit testing coverage.

The central theme of is to create a framework that can facilitate automated trading on most of the brokerage platforms, with minimum changes. At the end of the journey, you will have a working trading bot, with a sample implementation using the OANDA REST API, which is free to use.

What You'll Learn

• Find out about trading bots
• Discover the details of tradeable instruments and apply bots to them
• Track and use market data events
• Place orders and trades
• Work with trade/order and account events

Who This Book Is For

Experienced programmers new to bots and other algorithmic trading and finance techniques.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varshney, Shekhar

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Internationale Finanzmärkte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to Trading Bot.- 2. Account Management.- 3. Tradeable Instruments.- 4. Event Streaming: Market Data Events.- 5. Historic Instrument Market Data.- 6. Placing Orders and Trades.- 7. Event Streaming: Trade/Order/Account Events.- 8. Integration with Twitter.- 9. Implementing Strategies.- 10. HeartBeating.- 11. Email Notifications.- 12. Configuration, Deployment and Running th Bot.- 13. Unit Testing.

Über Autor(innen)

Shekhar Varshney is a freelance software developer based in Switzerland with over 19 years of development experience. He started his journey with IBM mainframes, correcting COBOL programs infected with the Y2K bug. At present, his main software development focus is building enterprise services based on SOA principles. He has a keen interest in software design and architecture. In his free time, he loves experimenting with new APIs and frameworks mostly in the Java ecosystem.