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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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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
Platform Updates

1400 days ago, I started building an algorithmic trading platform. Today, I executed my first real trade with it.

Four years ago, during my Masters, I drew my first diagram for “the Money Printer”. I had no idea what the future would…

December 1, 2024
Education

I did NOT turn $683 into over $100,000 this year. Here’s why.

I did NOT turn $683 into over $100,000 this year. Here’s why. As an entrepreneur in the financial technology space, my…

November 21, 2024
AI & Automation

It's hard as fuck to use LLMs for financial research. I did it anyways

It's hard as fuck to use LLMs for financial research. I did it anyways The challenge in converting English into LLM Func…

November 14, 2024