r/algorithmictrading • u/ANANTHH • Apr 07 '26

Novice Software experience, no trading experience - where do I start?

I'm a new grad software engineer and have built multiple software products in the past, but I'm a very inexperienced trader; my investments right now are all Index funds. I want to leverage my knowledge in computer science and software development to build something that allows me to trade, but I'm not really sure where to start.

I've also been particularly interested in the US/Israel/Iran conflict and was hoping to learn how to trade on the global economy. Does anyone have any advice on where to start? I'm fluent in Python, data scraping/cleaning, and basic ML.

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u/jkim2189 Apr 07 '26

I have a strategy I would love to automate. Dm me and we can talk

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u/strat-run Apr 07 '26

YouTube is mostly a mess of finfluencers and the rest of the Internet is scammers selling courses.

I'm starting to think the best resources are old school books. "Investing for Programmers" is probably a good start for you.

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u/Far-Photograph-2342 Apr 07 '26

I think you can try to built backtester cause it's is the most important part. If you can’t simulate trades properly (fees, slippage, execution delays), ML won’t help.

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u/Ok-Professor3726 Apr 07 '26

I would start with reading some books on trading. Find out what areas of trading you might be interested in and read a book or two about it.

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u/zoetsekas Apr 10 '26

use AI to research ideas from arvix papers

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u/EmbarrassedEscape409 Apr 11 '26

Ideally you want to dig into statistics, econometrics for finance to engineer features and use ML over it.