Real-Time Crypto
Real-Time Crypto
A big data approach to analyzing & automating cryptocurrency trading
About the Book
Have you ever wondered how to build a cryptocurrency trading bot? Have you wondered how you can apply machine learning to the financial markets? Have you wondered how you can get out of Excel and into the world of big data? You have come to the right place! Welcome to Real-Time Crypto. In this book, we will build on your basic Python and data skills and turn you into a bona fide big data engineer. Along the way, you will learn how to trade cryptocurrency in real-time, using cutting edge big data technology and machine learning.
Who This Book Is For
If you’re interested in the intersection of cryptocurrency and automation this book is for you. If you want to learn about cutting edge big data architectures this book is for you. If you’d like to learn about machine learning and time series forecasting, well, guess what? This book is for you! Ideally, you have a basic understanding of the Python programming language so that you can follow along and build your own trading bot using the book’s code examples. If you don’t know how to write code this book offers a great overview of cryptocurrency, blockchain, big data technologies, and how they all fit together.
What You’ll Learn
- Learn to build a real-time cryptocurrency trading bot
- Use machine learning algorithms on Bitcoin data to predict future prices
- A practical understanding of Apache Spark, Kafka, and Elasticsearch
- Comprehensive code examples showing you how to build a cryptocurrency machine learning pipeline from soup to nuts
- Everything you need to quickly and easily visualize your bot’s performance using Elasticsearch and Kibana
About the Author
About the Contributors
Robert Dempsey is a tested leader and technology professional delivering solutions and products that solve tough business challenges. His experience forming and leading agile teams combined with more than 17 years of technology experience enables him to solve complex problems while always keeping the bottom line in mind.
He founded and built three startups in tech and marketing, developed and sold online applications, consulted to Fortune 500 and Inc. 500 companies, authored the Python Business Intelligence Cookbook, and has spoken nationally and internationally on software development and agile project management. He has expertise in from-the-front leadership and mentoring, microservices architectures and API development, cloud services particularly Amazon Web Services, and distributed data gathering and processing systems.
Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Contributors
- Disclaimer
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Introduction
- What is Real-Time Crypto?
- Goals of the Book
- Real-World Use Case
- What this Book Assumes
- What this Book does not Assume
- Conventions
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A Roadmap for what we’re Building
- Developing a forecast
- Streaming exchange data
- Trading
- Summary
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Setting up your Environment
- Github
- Anaconda (Python)
- Docker
- Atom and SublimeText
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Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: a Primer
- Why Cryptocurrency?
- How Bitcoin Works
- Cryptocurrency Exchanges
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The Pieces of the Pipeline
- Kafka
- Spark
- Elasticsearch
- Kibana
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Bitcoin Price Forecasting
- The Data
- Prophet for Profit
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Putting it all Together
- Gemini Order Data
- Calculating Market Liquidity with Spark Streaming
- Building a Trading Bot
- Configuring Kibana
- Conclusion
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