aspromatis/pylivetrader-demo

A short demo using pylivetrader to trade stocks

Live RSI Momentum Trading with pylivetrader

Use the RSI signal to drive algorithm buying and selling decisions. When the RSI is over 70, a stock is considered overbought and is sold (or shorted). On the other hand, when the RSI is below 30, a stock is considered oversold and is bought. Here is additional information from Investorpedia.

Create and set-up a new virtual environment in Conda

Download and install Anaconda

Create a new environment in your conda navigator or terminal and use Python version 3.6 given dependencies.

$ conda create -n ziplive36 python=3.6

Activate the new environment.

$ conda activate ziplive36

Install pylivetrader

pip install pylivetrader

Install the Python wrapper for TA-Lib

$ pip install TA-Lib

Supported Brokers

Alpaca

Configuration by environment variables.

$ export APCA_API_KEY_ID={your api key id}

$ export APCA_API_SECRET_KEY={your api secret key}

$ export APCA_API_BASE_URL={https://api.alpaca.markets/ or https://paper-api.alpaca.markets}

$ pylivetrader run -f algo.py

Configuration by config file. Either yaml or json.

$ cat config.yaml

key_id: {your api key id}

secret: {your api secret key}

base_url: {https://api.alpaca.markets/ or https://paper-api.alpaca.markets}

$ pylivetrader run -f algo.py --backend-config config.yaml

Disclaimer - This is just a demo algo and using it 'as is' carries significant financial risk, so don't use it. All code and content is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice.