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Can you find any info of previous graduates of this course? $42k should buy you something... It really depends what you want to do... I would save the money and read every new posting at https://www.quantopian.com/home Look at the tutorials on Quantopian's site...

In 1999 I started to use a new software package called LeoWeb. I thought it was so great because I did not have to talk to an order desk to place an order. Also my commissions started to fall from $30 a ticket. I was sure the market was going down and I filled in the LeoWeb with the order info...

All of the Ehlers indicators that are based on digital signal processing are available through his book "Rocket Science for Traders" and through many articles in Stock & Commodities which is in love with his work. If you take code from the book you are going to spend a lot of time debugging the...

Sim trading except for basic procedures is a waste of time. Several years ago there was a research paper that was based on MRI scans of the brain during different types of game play. When a player simply played a game for points, the MRI was activated in one region of the brain. When a player...

drudgereport.com seekingalpha.com zerohedge.com Everymorning pre-open video at: https://www.youtube.com/user/FuturesTrader71 Every evening video at: https://www.dailyfx.com/authors/bio/John_Kicklighter I use polly a twitter desktop with columns for: news following a lot of sources, #ES_F...

Cramer and the CNBC set seems very outdated. Everybody looks very old at the exchange. I stop what I am doing to listen to Art Cashin(?) who is very good. Santelli is also good. Nobody else... More and more watching BloombergTV, not as much experience but better charts and data. Do I really...

For the same cost for Starbucks you can get a workstation spot at a 'coworking' office. Much better internet, fewer people walking around you, 24/7 access, very nice. Free coffee and tea. Good business crowd. No need for private office, but if a meeting is necessary you can schedule an...

The biggest problem with Blockchain/bitcoin is the scaleability. Each transaction has to be verified by 3 other nodes so that each transaction has to be broadcast to at least the nearest nodes, for verification, and then to the rest of the network to keep the blockchains in sync...

I would agree Quantopian is very good. It has an excellent API to Interactive Brokers that works fine with paper trading account or your margin account. 100's of example trading systems and a university level collection of webinars on algo trading. Quantopian is built around open source...

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21677198-technology-behind-bitcoin-could-transform-how-economy-works-trust-machine?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/thetrustmachine A lot of interest including a lead story on the Economist.... Blockchain applications as important as BitCoin as Blockchain...

You can find a lot of country related data at: http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory You might want to look at this Coursera course on "Understanding Economic Policymaking" https://www.coursera.org/learn/economic-policy/outline The professor uses google:data to teach a very good...

I think you are duplicating code that is already available in open source. Look at www.quantopian.com, it uses IB for trades, has 100s of example systems, trades minute data, will have futures data within months, open source downloadable, and on and on. The also have a lecture series on...

Take a look at quantopian.com they are a Python based development environment that allows you to develop, backtest and run a trading system. They execute trades via InteractiveBrokers. You could clone a 'good' trading system from many public systems and then learn how to program over a year or...

Since your are not going after a credential the following courses might be interesting.... ECON 251: FINANCIAL THEORY Yale This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. Rather than separating off the financial world from the rest of...