From Zero to Algorithmic Trading: The Complete Beginner's Handbook

A complete beginner's handbook for algorithmic trading. Every concept is explained from scratch, every key claim is cited, and every recommended tool is free.

It is built around Python and Freqtrade, includes a dedicated South African chapter, and opens with the honest statistics about how most traders actually fare. Sixteen chapters across forty four pages, with more than twenty five diagrams drawn specifically for this handbook.

What is inside

Part I, the foundations. What a market is, how prices form, what a bot really does, and the arithmetic that decides whether a strategy makes money.

Part II, the decisions. What to trade first, every serious free framework compared, trading from South Africa, strategies that have real evidence behind them, and how to backtest without fooling yourself.

Part III, the practice. Building your lab, your first bot explained line by line, a roadmap from week one to year one, and a one page trading plan you sign.

The reference shelf. A glossary of every term used, and the sources behind the claims.

Who it is for

• Absolute beginners. Every term is defined the moment it first appears.
• Developers who know code but not markets.
• Anyone who wants the actual evidence rather than screenshots of profits.
• South Africans who need the local detail: licensed venues, rand ramps, SARS and the TFSA.

What it honestly promises

No guide can promise you profits, and this one does not try. What it promises is competence. In about four weeks you can have a real bot trading live market data with pretend money, and understand every line of it. The whole toolchain costs nothing.

Delivery

A PDF, delivered to your inbox as soon as payment clears. Lifetime updates are included, so every future revision of this edition is free.

Educational material only. Not financial advice. Trading involves risk, including the loss of capital.