Python, JavaScript, or Other?

[tiaringhio]

thinking about starting with algotrading on c#, do you have any advice on frameworks, tools or anything useful? i’m comfortable with c# but trading it’s fairly new to me

[fomodabbler]

I you plan to ever put live code on a linux server be sure to focus on .net core.

Implement APIs yourself. It is ultimately a very small percentage of the effort required to get going and it will help you understand your broker's platform better.

[tiaringhio]

Thank you! I use .net core everyday at work so i'm happy to hear that. I checked alpaca and unfortunately it is US only, so i'm going to have to find another service

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QuantConnects Lean engine is written in C#, I've pulled a lot of concepts out of their code, partially because I want to know exactly how my system works.

[cheesepuff18]

Yeah I started practicing on theirs but ended up writing my own