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Thanks to everyone who took the time to read my post and reply. My motivation to look into trading is purely monetary. I want to make money, and since I have a technical background, understand market mechanics, and do well under pressure at poker (I don't start revenge playing), I thought...

If you're trading *systematically*, then psychology matters only after you've found an edge. Prior to that, from what I've observed here, discussions about psychology tend to be a way to avoid work. It's easier to wave hands than to mine for an edge. After you have one, yes, I agree...

Yes, there is a different set of questions I need to answer for which I haven't found any information. Questions such as How do I know whether this model, which is losing, is simply undergoing expected losses at the moment or suffering from systemic changes in the market, rendering it obsolete?

Ok, the general feedback is that I need to be able to trade profitably manually before considering anything automated. I understand the reasoning. Without the right context, crunching data won't help. But isn't the scientific method applicable here? My plan was to get historical data and just...

I work as a programmer at an investment bank. I build systems for the credit trading team which receive data from disparate sources, integrates them, and offers analytical views of the data all in real-time. My strong areas are data management, distributed systems, and functional programming...