Build Your Own Trading Bot

Step-by-Step Guide to Adding the MACD to Your Stock Trading Bot with Python, Alpaca Markets, and TA Lib

James Hinton
6 min readMar 13, 2024
Title Image for Build Your Own Trading Bot. Part of the Medium article, “Step-by-Step Guide to Adding the MACD to Your Python Trading Bot” by AppnologyJames

The Moving Average Convergence / Divergence (MACD) technical indicator is one of the world's most popular technical indicators. Many intraday traders use the MACD to help identify price trends and find entry points for their trades.

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James Hinton

Passionate algorithmic trader and Cyber Security expert. Love developing helpful content.