Algorithmic-Trading-Simulator

• Group: 8

• Team members: LI Kam Po(1155108393). KAM Wing Hang(1155110142)

• Github repo: https://github.com/windWingWalker/Algorithmic-Trading-Simulator

• Warning: This is a pure Python application, we assume you have some basic background knowledge of Python

Installation

1. Type the following command in your terminal

   git clone https://github.com/windWingWalker/Algorithmic-Trading-Simulator.git

2. (Optional) Build your virtual environment

   • We suggest you use conda to build a virtual environment, if you have no idea what conda do, please read this article https://medium.com/python4u/%E7%94%A8conda%E5%BB%BA%E7%AB%8B%E5%8F%8A%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86python%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E7%92%B0%E5%A2%83-b61fd2a76566

3. Install following packages

   • tkinter
   • matplotlib
   • pandas
   • pandas-datareader
   • datetime
   • requests
   • beautifulsoup4
   • pickle
   • numpy
   • os
   • mplfinance
     • You may fail to install this package by conda (since conda did not support it yet)
     • You can try this wonderful approach to install mplfinance https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41060382/using-pip-to-install-packages-to-anaconda-environment
     • If you do not use conda, then you can ignore above two lines

Run

1. (Optional) Switch to your Python virtual enviroment

2. Type the following command in your terminal

   python3 gui.py

Graphical User Interface

Home Page

• In home page, you can press Quit to close the application

• You can navigate to other page by pressing 4 top buttons.

• Also, you can set up a ticker (company name) (e.g. AAPL) for further analysis by Set Stock. This ticker will be shared by all pages. The default value is "AAPL"

Basic Page

• You can see basic information of the ticker, such as high, low, open, close and volume
• You can also change the period

Advance Page

• You can choose different type of graphs to show price
• You can also choose more than one moving average to plot
• You can display volume and non-trading day

Heatmap (Correlation)

• You can type some tickers search bar and press Set tickers
• The program will show the heatmap (corelation) of typed tickers
• 1 means positive correlation, -1 means negative correlation
• Default values are "AAPL, WU, GOOGL, GD, GM, ADM"

Backtest

• We provide strategy with exponential moving average
• You can modify the lower bound, upper bound and ticker
• The application will show a list of results based on your input