Hi all,
I am new to quantopian and am looking to create my first algorithm! I am trying to create something based on the following MACD & 200 EMA strategy.
Buy a stock or currency pair when the MACD line crosses over the signal line while below zero on the histogram & while the market is above the 200 EMA (showing an uptrend). I'd like to set a profit target of 1:1.5 risk-reward, so for example on a trade I would set a stop loss at -$100 and a take profit at +$150.
I've done some manual backtesting with this strategy and seen great returns, but I'd like to use quantopian to backtest even more and potentially port the quantopian algorithim to a live trading platform.
If anyone has ideas on how to get started, source code for similar algos, thoughts on how to improve the strategy, really anything at all, I would really appreciate your input!
Thanks,
Ross