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Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals
Everything you need to go from manual trader to deploying your first live strategy — indicators, conditions, actions, backtesting, and deployment. Six articles.…
The building blocks I Watched My Portfolio Crash From a Cornell Lecture Hall — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals Four types of indicators Why Technical Analysis Alone Will Lose You Money — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals Conditions & actions Conditions and Actions: Turning Indicators into Trading Decisions — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals Build your first strategy Build Your First Algorithmic Trading Strategy — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals
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AI & Automation

I just tried OpenAI’s updated o1 model. This technology will BREAK Wall Street

When I first tried the o1-preview model, released in mid-September, I was not impressed. Unlike traditional large langua…

December 22, 2024
Education

I just gained access to the new and improved o1 model. Here’s how I’m using it to time the market

With the stock market down over 5% in the past week, many new investors are asking themselves this question: Should I s…

December 21, 2024
Platform Updates

Why it took so long for my algorithmic trading platform to execute real trades

Last weekend, I re-watched one of my favorite movies: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.  In the movie, Miles Morales wa…

December 18, 2024
Platform Updates

🎉 Real-time Trading with Alpaca is officially launched!

🎉 Live-Trading is officially launched! Live-trading is now available on NexusTrade! Please note that live-trading is on…

December 18, 2024
Education

How to use Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI to create trading strategies that DESTROY the market.

Large language models have enabled a new way of interacting with the stock market, available to everybody. Instead of s…

December 13, 2024
Trading Strategies

I’m using autonomous trading rules to manage over $10,000 in investments. Here are my EXACT strategies.

I am launching a no-code fully automated trading platform to the world of retail investing. I don’t mean a simple app t…

December 8, 2024
Platform Updates

I spent 2 years rebuilding my algorithmic trading platform in Rust. I have no regrets.

One day, after a particularly arduous coding session with Rust, I decided to vent my frustrations with this language on…

December 5, 2024
Education

Trade like Wall Street – A Step-by-step Guide For Deploying Your First Algorithmic Trading Strategy

Ten years ago, algorithmic trading was reserved for the elite. Even backtesting a strategy (testing a set of trading ru…

December 4, 2024
Research

Is there empirical evidence of a "Santa Claus Rally"?

A Warning About Market Truisms. As an investor, I'm absolutely sick of market myths and unverified beliefs. Other invest…

December 2, 2024