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the simplest algorithm

Hey guys. I'm very new. Can someone please show me what an algorithm would look like to buy only one share of a stock and then sell it 5 minutes later?

3 responses

Hello Mike,

This is my attempt. I'm on GMT and for simplicity I haven't converted times to EST.

P.

Hi Mike,

Welcome to Quantopian! Peter posted a great algo to get started. Here is another algo that buys one share of Apple and sells after 5 minutes. The timezone is in EST.

In general, order_target_percent is a robust way to scale your stock allocations but I used the order method for simplicity.

Cheers,
Alisa

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Many thanks Alisa and Peter-

My idea stemming from this is to check the %change of SPY five minutes after market open to glean the sentiment of the overall market for the day.

Best,
Mike