Golden Cross Algorithmic Trading Strategy with Python and Backtrader (Part 4)

[@RoBearTheBrave]

PTL! This is very helpful. As a person with 10 years as a part-time hand trader, and as a terrible junior dev who bumbled around in JS for 1.5 years, I greatly appreciate your clear and concise explanations and examples. I completely agree with @OriginalDisplayName your channel is a game changer. Your coffee is coming!

[@OriginalDisplayName]

Honestly discovering your channel has been a game changer. From the bottom of my heart, thank you

[@jasenguyen95]

loving this video series! youre da man!

[@RoBearTheBrave]

I would love to see a video for how to: if buy signal, then close any current positions, then buy to open, if sell signal, then close any current positions, then sell to open.

[@fredysargo]

Amazing videos !! Excellent work !! I am learning so much from them. Thanks for Sharing.

[@andyr8833]

Great content as usual! What about the metrics? Does Backtrader offer a nice dashboard displaying the metrics? or something similar?

[@rverm1000]

nice video. like how you make it easy to understand

[@thomas2004ch]

great! Keep going on! Have you ever tried the zipline?

[@Martiansfromthemoon]

These tutorials are great! Would you be able to do one on gathering live data from an API and issuing buy and sell orders depending on your strategy? Be cool to see something like that in alpaca or something. You should also get a patreon mate

[@parttimelarry]

Just started a new real time series, more to come

[@dimitardimitrov2208]

I have followed the instructions in the video, but receive an error "Unexpected Arguments" for the below line: self.crossover = bt.indicators.CrossOver(self.fast_moving_average, self.slow_moving_average) Any Idea what Is wrong? I use Pycharm, if it makes any difference.

[@yourpersonaldatadealer2239]

Would be good if you could upload in 1080. Cant really tell what your brackets are at 720. Also providing source code in github would be great to double check things :)

[@9934max]

Hi, why we have to use ticker symbol spy in strategy, when we already feeding data while testing. i didn't get that . Can any one help me on this

[@tirtha9]

Hi can you show how to backtest a candle pattern combination like a Morning/Evening star for a given stock?

[@cacosta560]

0:13 that random person in the background

[@mantisliving]

from larry.apartment import roommate

[@sacs6088]

Can you do option strategies with Backtrader and can you please do tutorial on that?

[@parttimelarry]

I need to find a good source of historical option price data. Will look around.

[@danielmeharchand7696]

Really great video, thank you so much for this. Would you be able to do one using a multiple security universe??

[@markoblanusa5667]

Thanks for the video :) I have a problem with my backtests, every time i enter a new position the buy/sell order are delayed by 25 to 30 bars after the signal to buy or sell has appeared. If someone know my problem, thx for the help :) Sorry for my english by the way.

[@flam_g1]

Hi Larry, your videos are as always very motivating and even this time I wanted to try myself BackTrader example. Now I would like just to ask you if you could check about an issue I've found myself using the BT framework and your first simple example: in particular I found that (regardless of any new strategy I could define as I just typed the quick start guide example) when you assign the data feed (the same you used) to cerebro and you use in the strategy class the variable self.data.close[0] the platform works substantially fine although it actually reads the "adjusted close" from the csv file and not the "close" column. Now the issue I've found comes when you want to use instead different columns like the "open"s or the "volume"s with self.data.open[0] or self.data.volume[0] as I've checked and the numbers it reads don't match at all with those in the the csv data. thanks in advance if you can take a look and quickly check so to tell me your opinion about the reliability of this bt framework.

[@Lindfors79]

Can you make a dedicated turotial on historical data csv from binance where you actually get a csv that can be used. Even when using dtformat=2 its not working! I used you datagrabber tutorial to get all the data but they just dont work.. they are apperently not in correct format for any of your other tuts. My goal is to make a bot using the patterns from TA-Libs and pointless cuz the csv is not formated correctly to even use it for backtrader.

[@AntonioAndrade]

I watched part 1, 2 and 3 and this started without following part 3.... estrange

[@michealhall7776]

The up inflection of your voice at the end of every sentence is very distracting. Is this a American thing?

[@parttimelarry]

It usually indicates a question, but when someone (like myself) is talking about a new topic or trying things out, they may lack confidence and sound like they are questioning themselves or are uncertain and seeking reassurance. There are many articles on upspeak: www.forbes.com/sites/johnbaldoni/2015/07/30/will-upspeak-hurt-your-career/