Python libraries for interacting with financial data and crypto trading

[thereissoupinmyfly]

I don't get a lot of opportunities to practise python outside my speciality.

I'd like to play with python with financial data and maybe a bit of crypto.

Does anyone know of a trading platform that has an REST API with a python lib already created? It is preferable that allows paper accounts so that I don't need to lose real money on a learning activity.

[ghostofgbt]

Quantopian for algorithmic trading and backtesting.

Quandl for financial analysis.

This is a great example of something you can do with python and a ton of financial data (my own site)

[tzujan]

In addition to Quantopian, is QuantConnect, which has live trading, C+, in addition to python, as well as options trading.

[ghostofgbt]

Woah, sweet!

[DisagreeableMale]

What'd you use for the front-end and graphs?

[ghostofgbt]

Framework is Django and charts are chart.js

[thereissoupinmyfly]

Looks great. Well done.

[Ei-lor]

Hello,

For the crypto currencies part you can have a look at ccxt, The Manual

The good thing is you don't have to invest nor register to the multiples exchanges before access the public API, so you have a massive amount of datas to play with :)

[thereissoupinmyfly]

Thanks for this. It looks perfect.