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Topic: Will write trading / backtesting software for BTC (Read 1212 times)

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November 15, 2014, 06:07:31 PM
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I'm a professional software engineer / devops type with experience writing algorithmic trading software. Interested in your own trading bot that implements your own strategies instead of just simple dual moving average trading? Send me a message detailing your requirements and I'll let you know if it's feasible / possible / how much I'd ask for in BTC!

Strategies I've written / backtested in the past:

Sentiment Analysis w/ Naive Bayes
Deep Learning w/ Theano
Means reversion between two securities (e.g. track treasuries or gold index against BTC price)
Linear Regression of existing trends
the standard DMA/EMA/MACD algos

...oh just boatloads really. Ask me!

After payment is agreed on I'll ask for BTC to be placed in escrow until you sign off on the work that I submit. Also, I'm a real software dev, which means once we start swapping messages we'll also have to talk IRL, sign a contract, etc. 

What I'll hand off to you:

A docker container and a github repository with your code and documentation on running it. All work will be done in python.

One note: I STRONGLY recommend using algorithmic trading for backtesting and manual alerting only. My personal opinion is that an algo bot properly written works great if it's job is to backtest data, apply the algo to existing data on a daily / 4h / even 1h basis, and then *SMS a human being* with Twilio to let them know of possible entry / exit positions.

If you want more than that, you're probably not looking for a bot but rather a trading system that includes algorithmic trading (read: long term consulting deal and probably between several months to a year of development time. If you're an uberwhale who wants to have that discussion, ping me Wink )
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