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Beginner that needs help! - heiken ashi

Hey,

So i want to practice making some simple algorithms but I'm having some trouble.

I want to make an algorithm that buys whenever a heiken ashi bar goes green and to sell whenever a heiken ashi bar goes red.

How do i do this? Please help as I just got started with this and i really need some help to keep my going.
thanks

3 responses

Hi Ayman,

Take a look at this community post for an example of an algorithm that uses the Heikin Ashi technique.

In general, as a beginner, a great place to start is with the tutorials found at these links:

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopian-tutorial-with-sample-momentum-algorithm-lesson-1-the-basics-of-the-ide
https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopian-tutorial-with-portfolio-rebalance-algorithm-lesson-2-universe-fetcher-and-schedule-function
https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopian-tutorial-lesson-3-basic-fundamentals-with-piotroski-score-growth-stocks-and-uptrending-volatile-small-cap-algorithms

You can also have a look at the example algorithms in our help documentation!

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Thank you so much Jamie, this is exactly what I was looking for :)

hey can you post the source code once you are done, just joined and am struggling at the moment.