Hi, today I am going to discuss about algorithimic trading platform.

What is algorithmic trading platform

You could trade automatically by using algorithm on your local computer. However sometimes it is hard to do all by yourself from data aquisition, preprocessing, signal computation, backtest and forward test, real time auto trading.

Trading platform provides such tools for common job in website.

Quantopian

It is hosted by a startup company Quantopian where you could do the things aforementioned.
Main feature is that the language is mainly python and ipython notebook is supported such that you could code and simulate in anywhere with simple browser.

There are many competitions and using the algorithm of winners you could trade with your money. As I know of, the profit is divided to the platform, algorithm developer and you.

Running your money with winning algorithm is attractive but thing is that you could not trade cryptocurrency in the platform.

cryptotraders.org

It is the only and he best algo trading platform for cryptocurrency. You could trade many pairs like btc/usd, eth/usd,... even like strat/btc. Exchanges like bitfinex, btc-e, poloniex are supported.

In the platform you could also by some strategy. The performance is evaluated by backtesting with historical data. Following figure shows an example.

The platform supports computing some wellknown trading signals such as macd, rsi, obv. There are other signals implemented by users of platform.

The language is coffeescrypt which is not familiar to most programmers. So it needs some time to get used to it.

That's it for today.