When updating my profile with an tradiing account........ what should i use as my broker name...?
My robinhood login?
Confused as it doesnt ask for a password.
For 'Account Nickname' put anything there you want.
For 'Broker Username' enter your broker login (typically email but it could be something else. Robinhood uses a username you set up.)
That's all you need to enter right now. At the time you deploy an algorithm to trade in this account it will ask you for a password. Ostensibly, Quantopian doesn't store your passwords.
Thanks Dan. I appreciate it. I was looking on the site & I could not find a syntax card as I am unfamiliar with Python. I went to school before it was taught! Do you have any suggestions where to find one?
Not exactly sure what you mean by a 'syntax card' but if you are looking to learn more about Python maybe look at these two posts for some resources.
https://www.quantopian.com/posts/looking-to-learn
https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopian-lecture-series-introduction-to-python
Also, probably very quickly begin looking into the python add on libraries called Pandas and Numpy. They extend python with a lot of methods which are used on the Quantopia site. All of the fetched data (ie prices volumes etc) in both notebooks and algorithms are returned as an object called a Pandas dataframe. Dataframes have a lot of very simple powerful methods. The documentation can be found here http://pandas.pydata.org/ and here http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/
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