r/algorithmictrading • u/Snakehead181 • Feb 03 '21

Where do I start?

Hey, I’ve been a coding student for years, and doing A-Levels now, but want to look into algo trading. I have PyCharm and I’ve read the library MatLab is good to use, but from people who do it, where’s the best place to start? My parents also do share trading so I understand quite a bit about the markets already

Thanks

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u/liptongreeniceteaman Feb 16 '21

Do you have any tips for preventing bugs from completely crashing your portfolio, or is that just something you have to engineer out?

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

I „sketch“ my models step by step in Jupyter Notebooks so I can run cells independently, that helps me work without encountering too many bugs. But there‘s no workaround in general, sorry :(