Programming

Platform programming

• ThinkScript (for the ThinkOrSwim platform from TD Ameritrade):
  - ThinkScripter
  - TOS tutorials at Hanh Tech
  - Fun with ThinkScript forum
  - Yahoo ThinkScript group
  - ThinkScript chat group inside ThinkOrSwim
  - SmallDogInvestor Thinkscripts
  - FreeThinkScript at Blogspot
  - HalfWayBackTrading
  - Share-TOS
  - Charting with Chris
  - Big list of custom TOS indicators from Easycators
• ThinkScript TD API
  - Youtube tutorial playlist for the TD API by Part Time Larry
  - Main info page
  - New TD API page
  - TD API forums
  - TDAmeritradeAPI library by jeog
  - TOSDataBridge library by jeog
  - Discord (chat) server for the TD API
• Tradestation
  - Resources from the Tradestation company:
  - Two free EasyLanguage books
  - video: Intro to EasyLanguage (1 hr 27 min)
  - Mastering EasyLanguage for strategies (YouTube playlist)
  - Full list of TradeStation videos
  - TradeStation YouTube channel
  - TradeStation discussion forums
  - TradeStation web API
  - Blogs from 3rd parties:
  - Free tutorials from Mark Plex
  - George Pruitt blog
  - Tutorials from ABCTradingGroup
  - SystemTraderSuccess blog
  - Using Easy Language
• MultiCharts
  - MultiCharts uses Easy Language, as you get with TradeStation
  - It also has a .NET version of the software, where you can code in C#
• AmiBroker
  - Amibroker forum
  - Interactive Brokers data plugin
  - Auto-trading interface for interactive brokers
  - Alera Portfolio Manager
  - Acts as a bridge between Amibroker and Interactive Brokers for automated trade execution
• TradingView Pine script:
  - Script wiki
  - Script language reference manual
• NinjaTrader coding:
  - NinjaTrader language reference
• Interactive Brokers (IB):
  - IB API
  - IB API Guides
  - IBridgePy
  - New IB Rest API
  - Dmitry's TWS API FAQ
  - Google Group discussing the TWS API

Algorithmic trading

• RobotWealth
  - This is a fantastic community of algorithmic traders, which I've been a member of since they originally launched.
  - RobotWealth blog
• FinancialHacker blog
• Data analysis and statistics courses from EdX
• QuantConnect
  - Based on an open-source project
  - Supports option trading
• Quantopian
  - Getting started lessons
  - 100 most popular cloned algorithms
  - YouTube channel
  - Sentdex tutorials
  - Quantopian v2 code updates for Sentdex tutorials (p1 / p2 / p3)
• QuantStart
  - eBook: Successful algorithmic trading (paid)
  - QuantStart Trader – open source software
  - Intro article series to using QuantStart
  - QuantStart Facebook page
• Collective2
• The Python Quants
  - Quant Platform
• DX Analytics
• Alta5
  - supports trading options
  - supports live trading of your bot via TD Ameritrade
• Tickblaze
  - a very interesting platform for backtesting and live trading in either C# or Python

Python

• Tutorials for learning the basics of the Python language
  - 100 days of Python - excellent comprehensive Python course for just $13
  - Python for Everybody
  - PythonProgramming.net
  - Youtube – Sentdex
  - FreeCodeCamp
  - TutorialsPoint for Python
  - Learn Python the hard way (free/paid)
  - Book: Automate the boring stuff
  - Learn python
  - Learn python at CodeAcademy
  - Hitchhiker's guide to Python
  - Code Academy
  - Top 45 Python tutorials for 2018
  - Python tutorials by Guru99
  - Python tutorials by Devnami (basics, data science, GUI app creation)

• Simply Python blog
• Web frameworks for Python
  - Spyre
  - Plot.ly (paid)
  - Jupyter notebooks
  - Bokeh
  - Pyxley
• Finance
  - Awesome-quant
  - Backtrader
  - home | documentation
  - Zipline
  - home | documentation
• Deep learning
  - TensorFlow and Deep Learning by Google

R

• R project home site
• R documentation
• R Studio (free/paid) – IDE for R
• Shiny – a web development framework for R
• R reference card
• R seek – R search engine
• R Bloggers
• QuantStrat TradeR
• Systematic Investor and Systematic Portfolio
• QuantMod
• QuantStrat
  - package | documentation
• Statistics with R
• Statconn – embed R into other programs, such as Excel
• 60+ resources for R
• Big list of R resources
• tutorials and courses
  - Free 4 hour video course on an intro to R by Matt Dancho
  - 11 lecture tutorials by Charles Lanfear
  - Data analysis and visualization tutorials from Data Carpentry
  - Backtesting strategies with R
  - SwirlStats – learn R (tutorials), in R
  - CodeSchool – Try R course
  - R tips
  - Intro to R video tutorials – part 1 | part 2
  - Quick-R – R tutorials
  - R tutorials from R Bloggers
  - edX – Introduction to R for data science course
  - DataCamp
  - R tutorials by Guru99
  - R tutorials by Devnami

Excel

• ExcelChamps tips and tricks
• Microsoft Excel official training
• Analyzing and visualizing data with Excel course
• Chandoo blog
• Excel functions
• The Spreadsheet page (tips | blog)
• Spreadsheeto blog
• MrExcel forums
• Anneilytics videos
• InvestExcel
• Excel dashboards
  - 2 (very good) free webinars by Mynda Treacy
  - free 3 part series from Excel Campus
• Deriscope tool (free)
• Introduction to Excel VBA

AutoHotKey (AHK)

• AutoHotKey main web site
• Awesome Autohotkey - list of resources for AutoHotkey
• SciTE4AutoHotkey – an IDE for AHK
• GUI creator for AHK
• AHK macro creator
• iWebBrowser2 learner

Git (source control)

Online Git hosts

• GitHub – free hosting of public repos, private repo hosting is paid
• GitLab – free for both public and private repos

Training

• Git Complete (paid)
• Great article with sample workflows

Text comparison tools

• WinMerge
• P4merge
• Beyond Compare (paid, with free fully functional 30 day trial)

Historical options data

• HistoricalOptionData
• CBOE Datashop
• iVolatility

Historical data for stocks, ETFs and futures

• EoDData

Providers of Virtual Private Servers

VPS systems that include Windows operating system support

• Contabo

VPS system for Linux only

• DigitalOcean
• Amazon EC2
• Amazon LightSail
• Google Cloud

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