Sofien Kaabar Mastering Financial Pattern Recognition

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Candlesticks have become a key component of platforms and charting programs for financial trading. With these charts, traders can learn underlying patterns for interpreting price action history and forecasts. This A-Z guide shows portfolio managers, quants, strategists, and analysts how to use Python to recognize, scan, trade, and back-test the profitability of candlestick patterns.Financial author, trading consultant, and institutional market strategist Sofien Kaabar shows you how to create a candlestick scanner and indicator so you can compare the profitability of these patterns. With this hands-on book, you'll also explore a new type of charting system similar to candlesticks, as well as new patterns that have never been presented before.With this book, you will:Create and understand the conditions required for classic and modern candlestick patternsLearn the market psychology behind themUse a framework to learn how back-testing trading strategies are conductedExplore different charting systems and understand their limitationsImport OHLC historical FX data in Python in different time framesUse algorithms to scan for and reproduce patternsLearn a pattern's potential by evaluating its profitability and predictability