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What is a Trading Indicator? The Building Blocks of Algorithmic Trading
Course walkthrough
Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals
All lessons in this series
- 1What is Algorithmic Trading? A Beginner's Guide to Automated Strategies
- 2What is a Trading Indicator? The Building Blocks of Algorithmic Trading
- 3Technical Analysis Indicators Explained: Mean Reversion vs Momentum
- 4What Are Fundamental Indicators? Understanding a Company's Financial Health
- 5Alternative Data Sources for Trading: Satellite Imagery, Sentiment Analysis & More
- 6From Indicators to Conditions: Building Your Trading Rules
- 7What is a Trading Condition? Turning Indicators into True/False Logic
- 8What Are Trading Actions? The Final Building Block of Algo Trading
- 9What is a Trading Strategy? Indicators + Conditions + Actions
- 10How to Know if Your Trading Strategy is Actually Good?
- 11What is Backtesting? How to Test Your Trading Strategy
- 12What is Trading Strategy Optimization? (And How to Avoid Overfitting)
- 13Recap: From Building Blocks to Deployment
- 14How to Deploy a Trading Strategy: Paper Trading to Live Trading
- 15How to Backtest a Trading Strategy on NexusTrade (Beginner Guide)
Indicators are the most fundamental building block of any trading strategy. They're how you build rules for executing actions in the market. In this video, I introduce the four types of indicators: → Technical indicators → Fundamental indicators → Economic indicators → Alternative data sources (satellite imagery, sentiment analysis, and more)
Understanding these categories is the first step to building your own automated trading strategy.
Watch lessons, complete hands-on activities, pass quizzes—and by the end, you'll have a real strategy deployed to the market.
Transcript
0:00What is a trading indicator, and why should you care?
0:04An indicator is the most fundamental building block of a trading strategy, and you can use indicators to build comprehensive rules for executing actions in the stock market.
0:20In this video, I'm gonna separate indicators into four different parts: number one being the technical indicator, number two being the fundamental indicator, number three being the economic indicator, and then number
0:36four are alternative data sources. This can include things like satellite imagery, sentiment analysis, and other types of inputs that can be used to build trading strategies.
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