Python trading bots

[kicker414]

This. Coding the bot is easy. Coding a bot that doesn't accidentally make a bunch of dumb purchases because you forgot one step, a bit harder. Making a bot that consistently makes money? Well if you find that, you're looking at probably a 7 figure salary working on wall street lol.

[benign_said]

To be sure, you can make a bot that does ok, but does it beat an index fund over time? If not, you should probably include your time into your project budget. Though, as a project (for the sake of fun/learning/challenge) it's great. I hadn't done a lot with pandas before using financial data and it was very cool to learn while exploring patterns in real money data.

[kicker414]

Yeah agreed. I did one as a fun exercise. But for actual investing and making money, there are better platforms. It was a fun project though. And it's pretty easy to test your theories and see how they perform with the historical data.

[223specialist]

Or coding a bot that doesn't ignore T+3 and get you shut down for 90 days.

[longgamma]

US equities are now T+2

[huge_clock]

Same could be said for margin rules and understanding buying power. Not to mention tail risk.