The Opportunities of a Grid Trading System

What is Grid Trading? Grid trading is a rule-based strategy commonly used in crypto and forex market. It involves setting multiple predetermined price levels above and below a reference price, creating a grid of orders ...

 
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3 Common Order Types You Should Know

There are 3 order types that are commonly used in securities trading, namely Market Order Limit Order Stop Order Different order types can result in vastly different outcomes. It is important to understand how they differ and when to consider each. ...

 
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Guide to publish your app on App Store

This article addresses some frequently asked questions (FAQ) related to ALGOGENE App Store , and provides step-by-step guidance for ...

 
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Connect trading account with Alpaca

ALGOGENE now supports users to trade with Alpaca accounts using ALGOGENE dedicated trading gateway! ...

 
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Is financial market a zero-sum game?

I don't have much financial knowledge. I was told that the financial market is the biggest casino in the world. Every dollar I earn is coming from someone else in the market. Is i ...

 
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Understand Ethereum 2.0

Ethereum had completed its mainnet merge on September 15 this year. It is deemed to be a substantial event in the history of Cryptocurrencies. The way Ethereum fundamentally works has now changed. ...

How to implement stoploss?

Hello team, I am trying to implement a stop loss in my strategy. I’m not quite sure how to do it. Can someone provide more guidance? ...

Calling external API

I wonder if it is possible to perform HTTP requests on external API, like importing requests in Algogene? If it is not possible, is there any tricks to retrieve external data? ...

 
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How to set limit close order?

Hello, I found that the close order API only support market order. How can I close a position using limit order? ...

How to access news data feed to do sentiment analysis?

How to access news data feed and how to change the parameter of news data feed function? And does it output a dataframe or a dictionary? ...

How can I access whether certain trade closed with either targetprofit or stoploss?

I looked at the documents for querying orders but I couldn't find how I can query closed orders. I need to know whether my orders closed with target profit or stop loss. May I know how I can access th ...

Can I use the getHistoricalBar only for live testing

Hello, I want to ask about the function of getHistoricalBar. For example in backtesting, I want to get the historical 2min bar data of certain instrument and calculate some indicato ...

How to set order volume to balance percentage?

Hi all, I have a question related to placing orders. I checked from Tech Doc that the order volume refers to the number of contract to buy. However, I want to buy for 1% of balance ...

 
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What is the cause of DANGER message in backest?

I encountered below danger message during backtesting. I am wondering what it is about and how to get rid of it. Thank you! ...

 
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Is it a good time to invest now?

All markets have dropped significantly in these few months, do you guys think it is a good time to invest again now? ...

3 Tips to make your code more pythonic

This article will introduce you to the top 3 ways you might not be fully taking advantage of to write better Python code, including: List Comprehension Dictionary Access ...

Request for performance benchmark

Hello algogene team, I am really appreciate your powerful backtest and trading engine which provides lot of datasets to work with. It would be even great if the system can further support pe ...

Example in Tutorials (Moving Average)

There is only one instrument used In the moving average programming example. May I know if there is any method that can perform the same action but subscribes to more than one instrument? For example, ...

Usage of Instruments Other than Crypto for Algo-Trading Crypto Challenge Competition

Hello, I am currently trying to implement our teams' strategy on the backtesting platform. However, I tried to use other instruments such as gold price, but it seems I can only select Crypto data. I h ...

 
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Guideline to upload custom data via API

Following the article Guideline to backtest with custom datasets , we learnt how to upload custom data to the system for backtest ...

How long should a backtest be?

Hi all, i am new to algo-trading. So far I built an algo that seems to work for 1 year. How far should I backtest? The longer the better, or does it depend on the timeframe used? ...

 
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Connect Trading Account with WhaleFin

ALGOGENE now supports users to trade with WhaleFin accounts using ALGOGENE dedicated trading gateway! Open WhaleFin trading accounts through our partnership link , you will enjoy: ...

 
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No longer support trading services on Eqonex

Dear AlgoGene users, Eqonex has announced to stop trading services on Aug 22 , 2022. If you are currentl ...

 
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How to fetch market capitalization data

Hello people, As the title says, how can I get the market cap of each coin in each day? ...

Question about close prices in function data and market data

Hello, I have a confuse with difference between close price data in getHistoricalBar function and close price data in market data. I just tried to make a code to get RSI. But there was a quite big dif ...