Beginner trying to Create my own trading strategy using Ichimoku, RSI, Volume

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Beginner trying to Create my own trading strategy using Ichimoku, RSI, Volume

posted Apr 16, 2017

Hi Quantopian Comunity,

I am new to Quantopian and a Algo trading beginner. I have read many useful posts and so thought I might create my own thread and see what happens. I have some experience trading but struggle to trade as my strategy is more day/swing trading and I have a day job, I am hoping to create an algorithm which I can possibly run each day.

I have been learning on Quantopian for a few months now and playing around with algorithms but I would like to build something specifically to my requirements. I have been through all of Sentdex's tutorials etc too.

I generally use Ichimoku (custom settings) combined with RSI (above 70 and below 30), High Volume etc.

I want to combine these indicators for specific situations where they are all aligned either bullish or bearish.

I would also like to control the Ichimoku numbers 9,26, 52 and be able to change them according to my theory.

I pick stocks depending on:

Various Ichimoku signals
price
price change in the last week/month/year
volume
a specific time during the day and week
Sentiment and some fundamentals

I would trade a percentage of my portfolio and either use a trailing stop or use a signal from Ichimoku.

I was hoping someone would point me in the right direction to get this started, I have been through many youtube videos already. Maybe there are better strategies out there

Thanks

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