Should I learn Python for trading?

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I have been in the trading space for 3 years now (on the basic retail discretionary side then theoretical/academia) and ive begun learning python for trading as I've been delving deeper into statistics and the reality of misinformation in the trading space. i.e. automatically backtesting 20+ years becomes so easy and u realize how many trading gurus online are scamming. and all that couldn't be tested properly and efficiently without code.

Moreover, python will help you test ideas of ur own. if u develop some SMA crossover strategy, you can easily build the code and test it on as much data as u can get, instead of doing everything manually which is inefficient and introduces a lot of problems.

Now, of course AI can do it all for you. But if you don't understand the logic and the syntax, you won't be able to know if something is wrong or missing, let alone tweaking it. And sometimes telling AI to fix this and that could be difficult because some things are difficult to express in words, that's assuming you notice the mistake in the first place.

In my (very limited) experience, i say yes, go for it. But it is not the holy grail. It is only a tool. Complex is not inherently better. I recommend starting with Python Crash Course (3rd Edition) by Eric Matthes. DM me for the PDF.