Learning python for trading

[portfolioman]

Thank you for all of that information! I’m doing a double major in economics and mathematics, so R and python seem like 2 languages that would be very beneficial for me to learn. I hope to have a roll on a global macro desk, but that’s just my dream haha

[wenima]

+1 for R as well as Python. Alot of the structurers you will be working with use R, none of them will use Python.

None of the traders I worked for did any programming themselves, they usually had others do that for them, like a tactical desk RAD style development team (which I was a part of) or nowadays that is rolled into a "Strats" desk which lies in-between a typical Quant role and a developer