it absolutely would make a difference. But nothing in your previous posts pointed to you having had exposure on the quant/algo side. Why I say that?
* you have not mentioned a thing about strategies you ever tested, developed, perused nor have you mentioned tools such as Matlab, R, ..., which are often used tools in profiling ideas
* you made clear you lack any familiarity with programming languages. If you ever underwent a highly quantitative training of any sort you would have most likely come across languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, ...
* 10k trades per day per symbol is NOT a little higher frequency, its definitely high frequency.
* how you talked about financial markets made me come to the conclusion you have never worked in this field, thus have close to zero exposure to market internals, micro market structure, order book mechanics.
Please correct me other then saying I am wrong, use examples to make clear what you got and what you are willing to put in. I have nothing personally against you, but so far you have not shown you are the too aggressive or biting type of person who has it what it takes to get up and running in 1-2 years. Reading a lazy "Learn Java in 24 steps/hours" just does not cut it, imho. If you want to show you really are cut out for this and you need others's help then demonstrate it. Show where you post your coding quesitions on stackoverflow.com every single day, tell us in detail what your biggest limitations are, share your thoughts on historical data, how you plan to store and retrieve them for strategy testing purposes, how you plan in which architecture to test strategies, which asset classes you are looking at, which markets, ....so far you have just not convinced me and again its not your job to market yourself. But if you want constructive feedback then demonstrate you deserve it. That is my whole point.
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With all due respect, i still feel declined from opening a real direct discussion with you.. Not because i am only stubborn! but also because i see our minds are totally on the opposite sides. I am pretty sure such a discussion will not go anywhere. This is not personal at all. I believe you are trying to give me a sincere advice. maybe!. and i accepted it and thanked you for. You might think i could not digest relatively harsh expression. I think it is untrue but the issue is i am seeing not what you are seeing. Simple like that.
However, you actually come up with a very valid argumental subject when you said " how a complete novice can come up with high frequency strategies" and when you have done this conditional decision '' If he could do it starting at his current level of knowledge and be done with it in a year or two I and my quant degree from a top grad school, should all be put to shame."
I expected after those assumptions , you will come to an end like that " I am willing to bet my farm that he is not gonna make it (period).
But you came up with " .... as fast as he wishes". Which could be true.
I think i could ease things in your mind if i manipulate your words a little bit by saying " how an extremely quant/algo novice can come up with a quite bit higher than usual frequency strategies"
Does this make any change in your way of thinking?
