Full code/notebook available! Today I am going to talk about this simple yet powerful indicator and show you how to hunt for stocks that just entered the Supertrend! Here is what we’re going to do: Introduction to the Supertrend Implementation in Python: calculation & visualization Backtesting & parameter optimization Screening Supertrend …

With full code and a demo notebook. A breakout is a stock price moving outside a defined support or resistance level with increased volume. A breakout trader enters a long position after the stock price breaks above resistance or enters a short position after the stock breaks below support. …

An introductory guide to plot a candlestick chart along with volume, MACD & stochastic using mplfinance. — If you are a Python user, there’s a high chance you have worked with matplotlib before. To make it easier to work with financial data, a new matplotlib finance API called mplfinance was created (it was first released as mpl-finance but was later renamed). In this tutorial, we are going…

A step-by-step tutorial with full source code available. — Knowing how to scrape the web for data is cool and helps open a lot of doors, but data changes and can get outdated real quick. So, learning how to get the latest data automatically is also crucial. Motivation I recently developed stocksymbol, a Python package that contains a list of…

For both writers and readers. Some of the extensions I share here are not made specifically for Medium but I find them extremely helpful when reading and writing on Medium. TL;DR (For Reader) 1. Smart TOC 2. Dark Reader 3. Thunderclap (For Writer) 4. Better Medium Stats & Medium Enhanced Stats 5. TOC…

Familiarize with DataFrame by going through some of the most frequently asked questions. — All the codes used in this tutorial can be found here. I am a web developer and I don’t use Python at my work but during my free time, I use Python, mainly pandas DataFrame (DF) to perform technical analysis and screening to help my trading. Every time I start…

There are more than 60 candlestick patterns out there but how profitable are they? How can we really use them in our trading? Today, we are going to run a simple backtest on all the commonly known candlestick patterns and find out which performs the best. Let’s get to it. 1. Get financial data …

Whether you are an experienced trader or just starting out in trading, keeping a trading journal is crucial. It helps you to keep track of your trades, manage the performance of your strategies, identify which are working and what aren’t. …

A tutorial on plotting stock price chart along with volume, MACD & stochastic. Have you ever clicked into a trading or stock market-related article, scrolled to the bottom, and just left when you didn’t see a single image or plot? I know I have, sometimes. Visualization is crucial. Especially in…