I've been using an AWS EC2 instance to run a trading algorithm I put together in Python for the last year or so. You can see the results at http://kandfx.com ht

I've been using an AWS EC2 instance to run a trading algorithm I put together in Python for the last year or so. You can see the results at http://kandfx.com http://kandfx.com which I put together as a handy way to track its progress on the go. I've been trading with Oanda's API for over a year but originally traded using Metatrader 4 and built the algorithm in the native MQL4 language. That ran for around 2 years and the 3 years prior to that was learning and developing my strategy. Thanks to Docker containers, Python and Amazon EC2 I can finally say I have got the whole pipeline to a stable state which was probably the biggest hurdle after developing the algorithm in the first place. As for the strategy I have been very reluctant to share it with anyone because on the surface it is very simple. That being said there are some fundamental reasons as to why I believe its been profitable which has more to do with psychology than anything else but it did take learning a lot just to try and distil the behaviour into something that could make money. I've had some mild success with Crypto but I wouldn't ever try trading it the way I do Forex. The market behaves very differently and not to mention being in the UK any profits from Forex trading are non-taxable as I use a spread-betting account. Long story short… yes, I do believe you can make money algorithmic trading. Is it easy? No, far from it especially when it comes to having a fault tolerant system.