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I don't need the "Wall Street" job. I just want to use my skills to solve challenging problems and do some interesting work.
by jason_slack 9y ago
I don't need the "Wall Street" job. I just want to use my skills to solve challenging problems and do some interesting work.
- SirLJ 9y agoThis is actually great... You do not need a formal education to be great at this... I am a bit nostalgic and envy you for what is in front of you: a great challenge, but well worth it in the end... Having FY money is the greatest freedom one can ask for!
- jason_slack 9y agoI dont even want "FY" money. I want to see my code make the "FY" money.
- SirLJ 9y agoExactly, this is the name of the game: the best lifestyle businesses with no customers, employees or investors... host it in the cloud and you will be truly location independent... personally I am checking the logs of my systems once a week to make sure everything is working as designed + 3rd party monitoring service to monitor the servers and the API responses and all is set!
- meri_dian 9y agoHow would someone get started doing what you do with an automated trading system?
- SirLJ 9y agoget as much data as you can find and start back testing all trading ideas you can come up with... sooner or later you'll find something that works for you, the most important part of the back testing is to back test for at least 1 market cycle, the more market cycles, the more robust system you'll have... After that it is easy to convert the code and build the trading robot, now every discount broker is offering API for automated trading...
- jason_slack 9y agoIdeas on where one can get viable data?
- DoritoChef 9y agoI've heard good things about Quandl, especially if you're willing to foot the bill for some of their premium datasets. https://www.quandl.com/ https://www.quandl.com/
- SirLJ 9y agoCheapest I can find for 20+ years us stock market data, was on eBay for $100
- jason_slack 9y agoI would have never thought of that. Do you have any info on making a trading bot?
- SirLJ 9y agoI am always on a look out for data... On how to build the bot, the best documentation would be your discount broker API, here is IB for example... From here the sky is the limit... https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041 https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041
- jason_slack 9y agoThanks. I don't see an e-mail in your profile, but mine is in my profile. If you want to continue this conversation, hit me up.
- jason_slack 9y agoCan you share how much computing power is needed to have a bot (or several) automating trading?