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An algorithmic trading model. I have been investing for 2 months on my own and hope to open an investing firm in 2 years or less


You trading equity, options, futures? What's your strategy, stat arb, directional, delta-neutral? What's your broker? Lime/IB/Lightspeed/DMA? What's your tech stack? C/Java/Scala/GPU?


Equity, directional. Using trade king right now but no tech developed. Once I prove out my model works, would look into the tech side. Using excel right now.


Nice. I'm trading delta-neutral, volatility strategies on options using Interactive Brokers API. Right now trade entry is automated, but I do adjustments and closing trades manually. I spent a lot of time on tech, digging deep into C/messaging queues/distributed backtesting/event processing but I think best to use Excel instead of worrying about tech.


Good stuff. I might need to work with you to get mine working!


Nah, bro. Unless you want help on how to lose money on the market and also give more commission to your broker. If you're in the right area, they have Algo Trading meetup's or regular trading meetup's where some peeps maybe do algo-trading. e.g.,

You may find this helpful for what you're trying to do for equity trading,

http://blog.quantopian.com/gary-chan-on-pairs-trading-presen...

http://www.godotfinance.com/workingpapers/


This is great! thanks




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