Install

pip install flask pip install pandas

Alternatively use python -m pip instead of just pip. Note this package requires python 3

Running

python server.py

Accessing Dashboard

1. Enable CORS from browser (in Chrome get the Allow-Control-Allow-Origin extension) (or for the API developer please allow CORS :D)
2. visit http://uoft-a-oec-2018.herokuapp.com/dashboard

Components

Heroku deployed python server that does

1. automated trading
2. historical price front end for visualization

Trading algorithm

• mean reversion?
• computing first and second derivatives?
• machine learning?

API

for each timestep, trading algorithm

input: account { number cash [holding { string ticker number num_shares number book_price number market_price }] } [stocks { string ticker number [historical price] or current price if past prices known }]

outputs: [action { string type "buy" | "sell", string ticker number num_shares }]