Successful Algorithmic Trading has been written to teach retail discretionary traders and trading professionals, with basic programming skills, how to create fully automated profitable and robust algorithmic trading systems using the Python programming language. The book describes the nature of an algorithmic trading system, how to obtain and organise financial data, the concept of backtesting and how to implement an execution system. The book is designed to be extremely practical, with liberal examples of Python code throughout the book to demonstrate the principles and practice of algorithmic trading.