{"id":252,"date":"2020-08-31T08:56:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T07:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scichart.comblog\/algorithmic-trading-with-scichart\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T15:35:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:35:01","slug":"algorithmic-trading-with-scichart","status":"publish","type":"blog_scichart","link":"https:\/\/www.scichart.com\/blog\/algorithmic-trading-with-scichart\/","title":{"rendered":"Algorithmic Trading with SciChart"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
Trading, investing is a little bit of a passion of mine. In my career, I’ve worked in Tier-1 Investment banks<\/a>, trading firms and been involved in one way or another with financial markets for over 10 years. My company, SciChart<\/a>, has to balance and hedge incomes in Euros and Dollars. I post over on my Twitter<\/a> about trading, as well as SciChart and business & entrepeneur tips I’ve learned over the years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Also, I’m a software engineer and big proponent of High Performance WPF Charts<\/a> as you know! So, I thought to myself ‘what if I combine these two skills in a project’<\/em>? Enter: Algorithmic Trading with SciChart<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The cryptocurrency market (Bitcoin, Ethereum etc…) is extremely volatile. It’s notoriously difficult to trade. We’re talking about a market where an asset increased 20x in a single year (January 2016 – December 2017) and then decreased by 70% in the following year. How is such a market tradeable?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Problem<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n