Automated Trading With Python — For Absolute Beginners
The Seeds Of A Journey That Will Become A Guide
Observation: Investing in stocks looks very complicated, unpredictable, and inherently risky without proper preparation and experience. However, it is potentially highly profitable IF one has the right tools and information needed to make timely and correct decisions.
Question: How does someone gain the experience needed to make said correct, timely decisions without losing their shirt in the process?
The most straightforward answer to that question would be paper trading or hypothetical testing of a theory or a system before committing real funds to the market. Pretend to make a trade, write it down, then follow up on the asset and test how your decision would have worked in action.
“The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.”
― Adam Savage
Using the predictability and consistency of software, supplemented with the countless books written on sound trading practices based on decades of experience, you have a formula for investing success.
FACT: 60–73% of all market trading is performed by algorithms, as per
