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Building Trading Bots Using Java

Welcome to the world of automated trading! The fact that you are reading this book suggests that you want to probably build your own bot, which hopefully can make you some money while you are busy with your day job or, like me, want to experiment with the technology that goes into building such a bot using Java. Automated trading has been around for a while, although it has largely been a preserve of big players such as banks and hedge funds. This has changed in the last few years, however. Many retail investors are now able to trade on various platforms and exchanges directly, instead of using the services of a traditional broker on the phone, which means the demand has been growing to automate the task of placing orders while these investors get on with their day jobs. As a first step in automating this process, many platforms such as OANDA, LMAX, etc., provide APIs for various programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, and PHP so that the mundane tasks of watching the market, looking at charts, and doing analysis can be automated. On this journey, we will focus not only on the concepts of automated trading, but also on writing clean, test-driven Java programs. Toward the en

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