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Candlestick Patterns based Automated Trading
This course is designed to introduce the learners to patterns formed using candlesticks. The course gives insights on single and multiple candlestick patterns, how to combine them in your trading strategy, and the advantages and disadvantages of trading these candlestick patterns. Implement a trading strategy using the capstone project provided. The course helps you create, backtest, implement, live trade and analyse the performance of candlestick pattern-based trading strategies.
LIVE TRADING
 Explain candlestick patterns and identify and describe the rationale behind the bullish Marubozu pattern.
 Backtest & live trade bullish Marubozu with stop-loss and take-profit levels.
 Analyse the trade level performance and the strategy performance, such as the Sharpe ratio and maximum drawdown.
 Identify, explain the rationale, perform backtesting, and analyse strategy performance for bearish Marubozu, Hammer, Hanging Man, Shooting Star, and Doji.
 Identify & explain the rationale behind multiple candlestick patterns such as Engulfing, Piercing and Dark Cloud Cover.
 Combine single and multiple candlestick patterns and analyse them together.
 Describe the limitations of using candlestick patterns.
SKILLS COVERED
Python
Pandas
NumPy
Ta-Lib
Matplotlib
Candlestick Patterns
Engulfing
Hammer
Marubozu
Shooting Star
Strategy Analytics
Profit Factor
Sharpe Ratio
Maximum Drawdown
Win %
PREREQUISITES
A basic understanding of Python and Python libraries, such as data manipulation using Pandas and some basic functions of Numpy like numpy.where(). Basic knowledge of the financial markets. And some familiarity with placing trading orders is a prerequisite to this course.
SYLLABUS
Introduction
While candlesticks are commonly used for trading, not all of us are aware of the patterns formed by the candlesticks. In this section, you will get an idea of everything that will be covered in this course. You will also get acquainted with the Quantra ecosystem and how you can learn as well as implement these concepts in real life.
Introduction 6m 24s
Course Structure 10m
Quantra Features and Guidance 4m 10s
FAQs 2m
Candlestick Patterns
In this section, you will learn about what candlesticks are and how they are formed. Then we will move on to learning about candlestick patterns and the key advantages of using them while trading.
All About Candlesticks 3m 18s
What are Candlestick Patterns? 2m 57s
Systematic Approach 2m
Candlestick Patterns 2m
Bullish Marubozu Pattern
In this section, you will learn about the formation of a bullish marubozu candlestick pattern and you will be able to identify the same on TradingView.
Bullish Marubozu 2m 51s
Find the Marubozu Patterns 2m
Interpret the Price Action 2m
Bullish or Bearish 2m
Marubozu in Action 2m 33s
Highlight Marubozu in Tradingview 2m
How to Use Jupyter Notebook? 1m 54s
Visualise Bullish Marubozu 5m
Backtesting Bullish Marubozu
In this section, you will learn how to create a trading strategy on the bullish marubozu pattern, backtest it and analyse the strategy performance.
Backtesting Bullish Marubozu 5m
Trade Level Analytics 5m
How to Use Interactive Exercises? 5m
Average PnL Per Trade 5m
Win Percentage 5m
Average Trade Duration 5m
Performance Metrics 5m
Sharpe Ratio 5m
Maximum Drawdown 5m
Live Trading on Blueshift
This section will walk you through the steps involved in taking your trading strategy live. You will learn about backtesting and live trading platform, Blueshift. You will learn about code structure, various functions used to create a strategy and finally, paper or live trade on Blueshift.
Section Overview 2m 21s
Live Trading Overview 2m 41s
Vectorised vs Event Driven 2m
Process in Live Trading 2m
Real-Time Data Source 2m
Blueshift Code Structure 2m 57s
Important API Methods 10m
Schedule Strategy Logic 2m
Fetch Historical Data 2m
Place Orders 2m
Backtest and Live Trade on Blueshift 4m 5s
Additional Reading 10m
Blueshift Data FAQs 10m
Live Trading Template
Blueshift Live Trading Template
Paper/Live Trading Candlestick Pattern Strategy 10m
FAQs for Live Trading on Blueshift 5m
Bearish Marubozu Pattern
In this section, you will learn about the formation of a bearish marubozu candlestick pattern, and you will be able to identify the same on TradingView.
Bearish Marubozu 2m 2s
Closing Bearish Marubozu 2m
Interpret the Price Action of Bearish Marubozu 2m
Hammer Candlestick Pattern
A hammer is a bullish candlestick pattern. In this section, you will learn how to identify a hammer pattern and also how to create a trading strategy based on the hammer pattern and analyse the strategy’s performance.
Hammer Patterns 4m 20s
Find the Hammer Patterns 2m
Interpret the Price Action 2m
Body to Wick Ratio 2m
What’s the Buy Price? 2m
What’s the Stop Loss? 2m
Hammer Pattern in Action 2m 14s
Find a Hammer Pattern 2m
Trading Based on Green Hammer 2m
Trading Based on Red Hammer 2m
Backtesting and Analysing Hammer Patterns 5m
Hanging Man Candlestick Pattern
The hanging man may look the same as the hammer pattern but both of them are formed in different market conditions. The hanging man is formed during an uptrend, contrary to the hammer, which is formed during a downtrend. In this section, you will learn about the hanging man pattern and also a trading strategy on the hanging man pattern and analyse the strategy performance.
Hanging Man 2m 17s
Identify the Hanging Man Pattern 2m
What’s the Sell Price? 2m
What’s the Stop Loss? 2m
Enhanced Hanging Man 4m 23s
Hanging Man Notebook 5m
Shooting Star Candlestick Pattern
In this section, we will learn about a bearish candlestick pattern called the shooting star. You will also learn how to create a trading strategy on the shooting star pattern and analyse the strategy’s performance.
Shooting Star 2m 29s
Find the Shooting Star Patterns 2m
Interpret the Price Action Part-1 2m
Interpret the Price Action Part-2 2m
Bullish or Bearish 2m
Make a Trade 2m
What’s the Buy Price? 2m
What’s the Stop Loss? 2m
Is this a Shooting Star? 2m
Most Bearish Pattern 2m
Buy or Sell? 2m
Resample Data 5m
Shooting Star Notebook 5m
Doji Candlestick Pattern
Doji indicates indecisiveness in the market. In this section, you will learn why Doji is an indication of indecisiveness. You will also learn about different types of Doji patterns and how to interpret them.
Doji Pattern 3m 11s
Find the Doji Patterns 2m
Interpret the Price Action Part-1 2m
Interpret the Price Action Part-2 2m
Interpret the Price Action Part-3 2m
Bullish or Bearish Part-1 2m
Bullish or Bearish Part-2 2m
Bullish or Bearish Part-3 2m
Most Bullish Pattern 2m
Find a Doji Pattern 2m
Find a Dragonfly Doji 2m
Find a Gravestone Doji 2m
Doji in Action 1m 3s
Engulfing Patterns
In this section, you will learn about bullish and bearish engulfing patterns. You will be able to identify engulfing patterns in tradingview and also explain the expected trend prior to engulfing pattern formation to trade more effectively. You will also learn to define the entry and stop-loss price.
Bullish Engulfing Pattern 2m 52s
Identify Bullish Engulfing 5m
Prerequisites for Bullish Engulfing 5m
John’s Dilemma 5m
Entry and Stop-Loss 5m
Bearish Engulfing Pattern 2m 12s
Identify Bearish Engulfing 5m
Next Move 5m
Entry and SL 5m
Piercing Pattern
Piercing Pattern is a bullish candlestick pattern. It has more lenient criteria of formation compared to bullish engulfing patterns. In this section, you will also learn the specifics to look for to identify piercing pattern and place trades using it.
Piercing Pattern 2m 42s
Identify Piercing Pattern 5m
Piercing Pattern in Action 1m 48s
Tom’s Dilemma 5m
Entry and SL 5m
Dark Cloud Cover
The formation of the dark cloud cover is the opposite of the formation of the piercing pattern. It is used to initiate short positions. In this section, you will learn how to identify trading opportunities using a dark cloud cover pattern.
Dark Cloud Cover 3m 43s
Identify Dark Cloud Cover 5m
Partial Engulfment 5m
Entry and SL 5m
Combining Candlestick Patterns
When in trade, you can also come across a candlestick pattern. In a long trade, you can come across a hammer pattern. What should you do in such a situation? What if you come across a shooting star pattern? Answers to all these questions are covered in this section.
Combining Candlestick Patterns 1m 45s
Jack’s Dilemma 5m
What should Jack do? 5m
Long-Legged Doji 5m
Limitations of Candlestick Patterns
Candlestick patterns might not always work as desired. In this section, you will learn about the limitations of trading using candlestick patterns.
Limitations of Candlestick Patterns 3m 1s
Capstone Project
It is time to apply the knowledge you have gained in the course to a capstone project where you will create and backtest your own trading strategy based on candlestick patterns. Don’t worry if you get stuck, we have provided a model solution for you to reference.
Getting Started 2m
Problem Statement 2m
Code Template and Data Files 2m
Capstone Project Model Solution 5m
Capstone Solution Downloadable 2m
Run Codes Locally on Your Machine
In this section, you will learn to install the Python environment on your local machine. You will also learn about some common problems while installing python and how to troubleshoot them.
Python Installation Overview 2m 18s
Flow Diagram 10m
Install Anaconda on Windows 10m
Install Anaconda on Mac 10m
Know your Current Environment 2m
Troubleshooting Anaconda Installation Problems 10m
Creating a Python Environment 10m
Changing Environments 2m
Quantra Environment 2m
Troubleshooting Tips for Setting Up Environment 10m
How to Run Files in Downloadable Section? 10m
Troubleshooting for Running Files in Downloadable Section 10m
Course Summary
In this section, we will summarise the key concepts learned in the course. You will also find the zip file containing the strategy codes and data files at the end of this section.
Summary 2m
Python Codes and Data 2m
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