Part 1: Introduction to FX Trading Strategy Development

Success in any software development project is determined by two main factors – how fluent you are with the technology and how proficient you are in the subject domain.

Part 1 gives an essential overview of today’s FX markets, focusing on their peculiarities, which determine the choice of solutions used in developing actual code. By the end of Part 1, you will have gained a conceptual understanding of the market structure, its operations, and the key risks, and at the same time, you will have learned about approaches to designing the architecture of trading applications, which address specific market-related issues.

This part comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Developing Trading Strategies – Why They Are Different
• Chapter 2, Using Python for Trading Strategies
• Chapter 3, FX Market Overview from a Developer’s Standpoint