Building a LIVE Algorithmic Trading Bot with Python, Lumibot and Alpaca: A Step by Step Guide

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***This video is for educational purposes only. It should not be construed as investment advice.***

[pinecedar]

ok.. I think this is the starting video. I suggest numbering them and tell people in every video that this is a series.

[bigtexnick]

Great vid, Matt. Question from a non-coder: are you not able to do all of this configuring of your trading strategy logic inside of Alpaca itself?

[gaurav]

Thanks for sharing Man, keep up the good work

[EonEnt]

Great tutorial Matt! worked for me…. almost - any ideas why it’s rounding decimals back to whole numbers for fractional trading?

[yuxuanlin]

Thank you for sharing Matt! I have one question - It's very cool to generate a Plotly interactive graph from Lumibot. I wanted to dig into the package and find the code that generated the graph but I couldn't find it. Do you know where in Lumibot embedded this function? It'll be so much easier to leverage it on other data visualization projects.

[shawnholcomb]

Finally! i was able to get most of this code work! haha i got all the results you did except no web page opened.. Got this error: ValueError: Cannot set a DataFrame with multiple columns to the single column plotly_text_sells.. but soo much progress lol

[mpumisetshedii]

Thank you for this video, will a gold tracking bot be in the pipeline for this video series?

[mdawg]

I'm new to coding. I straight up cannot figure out how to get Lumibot available for this program. I went to terminal. Did the pip install. Now what? I cannot find out to actually include it.

[chentomerify]

hey matt!, loved the video! i have trouble installing pip lumibot. it says there is something wrong with the package itself(not pip). is it possible that lumibot isnt working with my python version (3.12.12)? thank you!

[CreeLegacy]

Hey man! Thanks for the content! I've downloaded your code, set it up, got it up and running, when I run Buy_hold, it opens up my chrome properly and profives the graphs alright, but in my VS terminal I don't get what you call "higher statistics" any clue why?

[ihebbibani]

Thanks for the video.
Any idea please to solve this error :

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for multidict
Successfully built aiohttp
Failed to build multidict
ERROR: Could not build wheels for multidict, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

[andrewgreggs]

I'm getting an error which says there isn't enough data to create a tearsheet, but I am able to backtest and get that visualization comparing the BuyHold strategy with SPY. Any idea on how I can fix this?

[joshlazor]

Can you do a video on different trading strategies?

[bf]

if im buying and holidng why is the growth percentage different from the charts?

[zaufall]

With your lumibot examples I'm getting "TypeError: 'Timestamp' object is not subscriptable". Any help appreciated.

[waddupitsD]

tried your code it says No module named 'lumibot' but I installed it, , , could it be that the code never imported lumibot???

[nikopukkila]

Hi Matt, thanks for the great video! As someone with little to no programming experience, I am running into problem "ImportError: cannot import name 'ALPACA_CONFIG' from 'config'". I've tried to set up my API credentials into Jupyter txt and py files and cant seem to get it work. Any advice concerning this?

[jcruz]

After skipping to the end of the video, I found it hilarious that the bot essentially lost money. I likely missed a lot since I only watched the end. However, I’m curious - would you recommend this as a profitable hobby?
I'm looking to spend 1 - 2 hours per day on it. I believe I already know enough web development to carry me through this API with JS & some other tools. However, I can't help but think that it's not worth my time as there's not that much discussion about the profits that people on my level may or may not get.

[arnoldbabcock]

Hello Matt, How can I download lumibot? I looked online and only see documents for download, if you could please include a link in the bio it would greatly be appreciated!

[officialbubies]

Hi, I was following along with the video and when i run the script I am getting this error which then throws alot more other errors:
"GOOG: No data found for this date range, symbol may be delisted"