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Nothing is easier, both derivatives are hard to trade. You should approach them with much broader perspectives as which do you have a deeper understanding in.

I have been using intraday futures data AlgoSeek, their data dates back to June 2009 to present and it's from CME, NYMEX, COMEX and CBOT. They also have Future Options data if it's something that you want to look into.

Yes, I have used QuantGo before, alternatively you can try AlgoSeek

is this something you are looking for? https://www.algoseek.com/futures/

Algoseek.com offers easy to use APIs for such data in depth data sets, they have focussed more on institutional intraday data sets, they have tick, 1 sec, 1 min and 5 min OHLC bars on equities, options on equities, indexes, futures, ETNs and ETFS. Their data goes way back to 2007.

Never try to predict the market

I think you should buy put options, this is much better than you going for a covered call. The reason is, with covered call the best you to get is the premium this means that your profit is limited to the premium that you receive. On the other hand, if you'd buy a put option, the only lose that...

I don't think there's anything wrong you working while trading at the same time. I'd actually encourage any person to do that especially if they are risk averse. Imagine your stable business and the trading positions as a perfectly hedged portfolio. Your business being a position in a risk free...

Most trader fail because of a couple of things but the major ones in my opinion are as follows: Emotions Many traders especially the fresh ones are normally affected by emotions whenever they get into particular trades. For example, they feel great when the market is favoring them but when the...

Trading taught me to be more patient, gave me the inner calmness and ability to make judgement based on facts and not emotions. I would say it ended my paranoia as you get to trust the automated systems that trade for you. This is especially harder for somebody who wants to handle everything by...

Check out https://www.algoseek.com/ they offer high quality and clean intraday data for futures, ETFs, Options, Equities, Indexes and ETNs. Intraday they have tick, 1 sec, 1 min, 5 min OHLC bars; for equities, futures and options their data goes back to 2007. tickdata.com they equities...

I use 1 min, 5 min and 10 min chart bars, just for the purposes of tracking price movements

That's what happens to more free resources. You can try to look for data from other free sources such as IEXtrading.com, though they have the downside of their data being unclean. I wish you specified the exact set of data that you were obtaining from yahoo, I could have offered you other...

I don't think that's possible, the metrics required to get the historical data are quite complex, you just can't do it easily. But if you've found a way please enlighten us

Please do so and share the link, that would be so helpful. I am sure lots of people would really benefit from it.

Try tickdata.com, quandl.com or polygon.io, they might be able to help you

The following vendors have a quality and clear intraday tickdata, I think they have the exact sort of data API's that might be interested in: Algoseek.com: Their team comes from a HFT background, they offer institutional historical intraday market data back to 2007 for the US equities, Futures...

Other than tickdata.com, you should try: Algoseek, they have been vending for sometime. They have Intraday data back to 2007 for US Equities, Futures and Options. Intraday they have tick, 1 sec, 1 min and 5 min OHLC bars. Institutional data and well priced. Quantgo.com, here clients rent access...

It all depends on what you are great at and the tasks you wanna undertake, but you could use any language to implementing things in algotrading, though there are other tasks that would require you to use high level language like C++, to solve the problems at hand. So the kind of language you...

Getting reliable vendors who can offer you clear and quality data and a reasonable price is very trick nowadays, now you can imagine how difficult it can be to obtain free tick data. Data is like 90% of algotrading, you just can't do without it, and vendors will ask for something back for you to...