How to Build a Python Momentum Algorithm Trading Bot w/ Lumibot & Alpaca

​ @MattMacarty
#algotrading #python #tradingbots

How to Code a Trading Bot in Python

[ArjanDhawan]

I just recently discovered your channel and i must say you are a great teacher. You explain things well, and make me feel motivated to make my own projects; Please make more videos!

[systemadminn]

Your videos on Lumibot and Alpaca have been awesome as an entry point for someone with a passing interest in this area. I've been following along and playing around with my own environment.

Do you think you might be able to do a video dedicated to back testing with lumibot*? What's possible, what's not, what limitations it has?
That would be amazing.
You mentioned in this video that you couldn't back test this strategy due to something with the last price function, and maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I thought the last price function executed as if it was the day/point in time the backtest date was at. So, I'm not sure I understand why that isn't possible.
If I had to guess, my assumption would be that maybe the yahoo data is only on a daily grain, thus running more than once a day wouldn't yield different high low close open? (Because it's still just the one row for the day)

*EDIT: "With lumibot"

[jjones]

Thank you for the video. Do you happen to know why, when trying "get_historical_prices" or the deprecated but still existing "get_bars", it says that Yahoo does not have any data for any timestamp? Even the default value "minute" gives an error saying yahoo doesn't have any data for "minute". I am trying to backtest. Thanks

[sreekanthvarmayadavalli]

Thanks share your knowledge . Please one by one Set playlist to easy identifying . Teach me more even begginger to understand each market in series wise.

[IICuervosMalditos]

Hi Matt, I have an algorithm to trade BTC but I need to not be charged fees for entering and exiting the market. the algorithm performs the scalping. What do you recommend me? some platform. or where I can run it. I also need it to have no spread.

[SnowyCocoon]

Great video! Are you planning to make more of those?

[esthercodes]

Hi Matt, thank you for this. I checked out your code but can't run the paper trading option due to during websocket communication: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1129)
Have you been able to run it recently?

Solutions on the Internet have not resolved this problem and I'm on Windows

[possessedbear]

i get an error now saying endpoint in my config file is deprecated and should be replaced with "PAPER"... however... then it wont run the program