course_notes.txt

freeCodeCamp - Algorithmic Trading using Python

https://github.com/nickmccullum/algorithmic-trading-python/tree/master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfzGZB4HhEE


pip install numpy
pip install pandas
pip install notebook
pip install requests - this may well be installed by venv anyway?

numpy - numerical calculations. numpy module written in c/cpp, so very fast. 

pandas - panel data. works well with tabular data. data frame - tabular structure that holds data. 


# run the notebook
python -m notebook

https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/

https://api.iex.cloud/v1/data/core/quote/aapl?token={IEX_CLOUD_API_TOKEN}

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75956209/error-dataframe-object-has-no-attribute-append