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Strategies in currencies

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Strategies in currencies

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- [Instructor] Now that we've put together an attractive dataset and cleaned it up a little bit, let's start going through and actually developing a real algorithmic trading strategy. I am using two different files in Stata. First, we have the 04_04_Begin do-file. Okay. And that's just going to build on what we've done in 04_03. In addition, I've pulled in the data from the DTA file for 04_04 Begin. So this is the Stata .dta file, which is what contains our data. And then we have the do-file, which contains the actual commands and code that we type. So, now that I've pulled up my do-file and my .dta, I'm ready to get started with actually going through and developing a trading strategy. So I'm going to do a little bit of house cleaning here. I'm just going to drop the Date1 because we don't need that anymore. And now I'm ready to start actually developing a strategy. Now, one popular strategy in currencies is what's called triangular arbitrage. This essentially just looks at what's…

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