Alex Krishtop - Getting Started with Forex Trading Using Python

Beginners guide to the currency market and development of trading algorithms

Alex Krishtop

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To my loving wife, Emily, without whose perpetual kicking I would have never accomplished this book.

And to my son, Daniel, who is making his first steps in the weird world of data science and Python programming.

Alex Krishtop

Alex Krishtop is a quantitative trader and researcher with 20 years of experience in developing automated trading solutions. He is currently the head of trading and research at Edgesense Technologies and CTO at ForexVox Ltd. He develops market models and trading algorithms for FX, commodities, and crypto. He was one of the first traders who started using Python as the ultimate environment for quantitative trading and suggested a few approaches to developing trading apps that, today, have become standard among many quant traders. He has worked as a director of education with the Algorithmic Traders Association, where he developed an exhaustive course in systematic and algo trading, which covers the worlds of both quantitative models and discretionary approaches.

Andrey Lyashenko is a VP quantitative analyst at one of the largest investment banks in Eastern Europe and has around 20 years of experience in information technologies and finance in various roles. He has worked primarily in the development of high-availability and high-performance systems (including trading platforms) and has experience in private equity and leveraged algorithmic trading in financial markets. In trading, he takes a systematic, science-based approach to developing and implementing investment strategies.