San Francisco, California, USA
Experience: Advanced
Platform: Tastyworks
Broker: Tastyworks
Trading: CL, ZW, ZS, ZC, ES, NG, Smalls
Posts: 18 since Sep 2019
Thanks Given: 0
Thanks Received: 44
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To be blunt, I traded for years, actually decades, to arrive at my trading strategies for stocks, options, and futures. Because my top priority is liquidity, I limit my algo trades to stocks and futures. I never found a software package that met my requirements. You ask 100 traders the best way to trade and you will get at least 100 answers. What canned package can accommodate that? Answer: NONE. So you either trade using someone else's rules, pay someone else to code it, or you code it yourself. I wanted to be able to tweak it myself as necessary so I learned Python. There are tons of tutorials, snippets, and code examples all over the internet, as well as full-blown Python classes. So I learned Python. Let me say that so much of the math I need to calculate indicators is done inside huge canned packages written for just that purpose. So you are learning interfacing with the API's, feeding the right numbers to calculate indicators, issuing instructions via the API's, etc. I don't worry about charts, limit orders, etc. I backtested until it gave me good results and let 'er rip. This style is probably not for everyone but it does serve me well.
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