Cryptocurrency Algorithmic Trading with Python and Binance (Udemy.com)
Create powerful Trading Strategies and fully automated AWS Trading Bots for Bitcoin & co. | Spot and Futures Trading
Created by: Alexander Hagmann
Last updated December 2025
What you will learn
- Build automated Crypto Trading Bots with Python, Binance and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Spot Trading and Futures Trading
- Create powerful and unique Crypto Trading Strategies
- Rigorous Testing of Strategies: Backtesting, Forward Testing and live Testing (Paper Trading)
- Deep Dive into the Binance API (Spot & Futures)
- API Trading with Binance and many other Exchanges (Coinbase, Kraken & co.)
- Truly Data-driven Trading and Investing
- Margin Trading (Leverage)
- Understand Trading: Order Types, Commissions, Bid-Ask-Spread, Slippage, Liquidation, etc.
- Load Historical Market Data (Price, Volume and more) from Crypto Spot & Futures Markets
- Get programmatic access to many Crypto Exchanges with the CCXT Library
- Python Coding and Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in a way that everybody understands it
- Coding with Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib and Seaborn
Course Description
Welcome to the most comprehensive Algorithmic Trading Course for Cryptocurrencies. It´s the first 100% Data-driven Crypto Trading Course!
Learn how some of the most successful Crypto Traders and Investors make Profits.
In this rigorous but yet practical Course, we will leave nothing to chance, hope, vagueness, or pure intuition! And it´s the most detailed course on the Binance API. Other Exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, KuCoin, KuCoin Futures, OKEx, Bybit & co. are supported as well!
So what´s the ultimate goal of this course? Creating powerful and fully automated Crypto Trading Bots for Spot Trading and Futures Trading.
The course is structured in five Parts:
Part 1: Fundamentals of Trading, Binance, and Python for Finance
Trading vs Investing
Spot vs. Derivates (Futures) Trading
What you should know about Cryptocurrencies as an Asset Class
Trading 101: Market Orders, Limit Orders, Commissions, Spreads, Slippage, Market Depth, and more
Binance Overview and the Binance API
Financial Data Analysis with Python and Pandas
Part 2: Automated Crypto Spot Trading
Long-only Strategies
Enhanced Buy-and-Hold Strategies
Backtesting, Optimization, and Forward Testing of Trading Strategies
Implementing and automating Trades
Creating fully automated Trading Bots in the Cloud (AWS)
Real Trading and Paper Trading
Part 3: Automated Crypto Futures Trading
Futures and perpetual Futures
Long-Short Futures Trading Strategies
Margin Trading (Leverage)
Real Trading and Paper Trading with the Binance Futures API
Part 4: API Trading with other Exchanges
Getting programmatic access with the CCXT Library
Trading with CCXT and Binance
Trading with CCXT and FTX
more examples to come...
Part 5 (Appendix): A Python Crash Course (optional)
Everything you need to know about Python Coding for this Course - no more, no less
What else should you know about me and the course?
The course shows how to do things right. But equally important, it highlights the most commonly made mistakes in (Crypto) Trading. There is hardly any other business where beginners make so many mistakes. Why is that? A lack of skills, expertise, and experience. And: Overconfidence and overreliance on intuition. As a finance professional with an extensive academic background (MSc in Finance, CFA) my clear message is: For Trading and Investing, intuition and common sense are not your best friends. Very often, the most intuitive solution is not the correct solution!
This course is "not only" a crypto trading course but also an in-depth Python Course that goes beyond what you can typically see in other courses. Create Software with Python and run it in real-time on a virtual Server (AWS)!
What are you waiting for? Join now!
Thanks and looking forward to seeing you in the Course!
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
2,360 Reviews
Alexander Hagmann
Alexander is a Data Scientist and Finance Professional with more than 10 years of experience in the Finance and Investment Industry.
He is a Bestselling Udemy Instructor for
- Algorithmic Trading
- Data Analysis/Manipulation with Pandas
- (Financial) Data Science
- Python for Business and Finance
- ChatGPT and other AI tools
Alexander started his career in the traditional Finance sector and moved step-by-step into Data-driven and Artificial Intelligence-driven Finance roles. He is currently working on cutting-edge Fintech projects and creates solutions for Algorithmic Trading and Robo Investing. And Alexander is excited to share his knowledge with others here on Udemy. Students who completed his courses work in the largest and most popular tech and finance companies all over the world.
Alexander´s courses have one thing in common: Content and concepts are practical and real-world proven. The clear focus is on acquiring skills and understanding concepts rather than memorizing things.
Alexander holds a Master´s degree in Finance and passed all three CFA Exams (he is currently no active member of the CFA Institute).
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Reviews
By Michail Papoulakos on 2/24/2025
One of the best courses I have taken! Very informative and well structured! The instructor is easy to follow even when the section has depth and complexity. I really liked the appendix section with the Python learning course inside the main course! Still haven't reached the point of actually making a trading bot, BUT I didn't have the knowledge to the fundamentals until now! Very excited with what's coming next!
By Roman on 11/22/2023
Really amazing, course. Thank you! The appendix to the course is also great. Feel free to start learning if you have no experience in Python, checked by myself XD. Besides jokes, it is a great way to get the basics in every aspect of this course whether it is Python programming, data analysis, or algorithmic trading. You will not get the various trading strategies here, but IMHO this is the best way to get everything you need to run your first trading bot.
By Ali EL Hassan on 8/5/2023
the course sometimes becomes boring with a lot of details that are not related to the subject. the course in general create a good framework for algo trading. taking into consideration that you need to use old versions of python and binance while the instructor shall figure out a solution using latest versions. however i will regsiter for other courses from the same instructor .as i could not find better
By Rajko Rodin on 3/24/2023
I am currently taking the Udemy course on crypto algo trading and so far, I am very happy with it. The course is well-structured, easy to follow, and strikes a good balance between theoretical knowledge and practical application. The instructor is knowledgeable which makes the learning experience engaging and enjoyable. If you are interested in learning about crypto algo trading, I highly recommend this course as a valuable resource.
By Diego Diego on 11/1/2022
After trying some code on my own, I was looking for a serious approach to Algorithmic Trading with Python and I'm so happy I discovered this amazing course by Alex. He explains very well every detail and all the code in the examples is so simple and clean. He provides you a real and professional framework to backtest and live-trade any strategy both in Spot and Futures. The course is focused on crypto but the framework can be reused in other markets with minimal changes. I am enrolled in other courses by Alex and getting deeper in this fantastic field. He is also responsive with useful answers to questions in Q&A. My goal is to be a profitable algo trader and these courses are the perfect start point to build on them and reach my objective.
By Ruben Araujo on 7/9/2022
Amazing course. Up to par with the best teachers in Udemy. I give it 4.5 out of 5, because there is always room for improvement. Alex is highly technical and expects his students to put effort into things, so as to not repeat himself. If you are new to programming or new to Finance, I strongly suggest to start with the Python Crash Course, as the most challenging parts are not the programming parts, but understanding the finance lingo behind it. I will now solidify the knowledge into my own code and strategies and then continue on, to Alex's other 3 courses that peaked my interest, "Performance Optimization(...)", "Technical Analysis(...)" and perhaps the "Complete Pandas Bootcamp(...)". Definitely recommend. He does not have the most enthusiastic speaking pattern, but he knows his stuff and is constantly replying to students, which is a great thing.
By Anonymized User on 3/7/2022
Great course to start with cryptocurrency algorithmic trading. Appreciate that no existing trading framework was used (freqtrade, quantconnect etc.), but everything was coded from scratch using just the broker api wrapper. Compared to Alex's other course "Algorithmic Trading A-Z with Python, Machine Learning & AWS" some interesting topics are missing in this course (Advanced backtesting and Machine Learning), because of that I am subtracting 0.5 star.
By Konstantin Sazonov on 3/6/2022
For 2 years I keep getting back to this course for different topics. It's so far the best place with all topics covered, from programming to quantitative. It's incredible how this course helped me to start when I was a noob, and now it still teaches me and helps grow further. It's incredible to keep getting back to it. Thanks Alexander for such wonderful knowledge base!
By Antonio on 2/25/2022
Alexander is a great teacher with passion and professional. The course is very well structured. After this course you can really learn the basics of python and crypto market. I didn't give full five stars just cause i think will be better if it will be possible to have a discussion group or the possibility to reach directly Alexander for specific question or problems during the learning process. Anyway one of the best courses on Algo Trading . Thank you Alexander
By Anthony C on 2/5/2022
has arguably the best python crash course and is actually for beginners. I had done 4 courses before this but only this one has given me proper knowledge of python- I mean he has 6 hours of pandas in a crash course- This gives you information that is easily transferable. It is delivered in a way that is not just follow along code where you have no understanding of the fundamentals.
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Overall Score : 92 / 100










