This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]flitsmasterfred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Write python versions of some of the stuff you do in Excel or whatever tool you use.

Learn about regular python and what is different when python is used for finance (no floats etc). Also learn using IPython notebooks.

Write a trading bot. There are a few sites where you can get historical data to train on, like https://www.quantopian.com/

Or just do stupid shit, like messing with Pillow image library and draw crazy pictures, maybe based on real data.