You seem to contradict yourself on several ends: You said you failed at what you were doing before, trading wise. Now you want to get an engineering degree which hardly gets you any closer to success in trading but you say you look for programming courses and ask which ones will beneficial in order to assist in your trading effort down the road. That leads to the conclusion you still want to continue your trading attempt, which makes me wonder why you think you will get any further ahead in terms of trading?
What makes me wonder whether you have what it takes to succeed in trading? Simple
* You lack the curiosity to make it happen. I have not seen you asking questions what you have done wrong and what is lacking and missing to get ahead. You equally expressed clearly you have no interest to work in a professional trading environment, thus you hardly will get a chance to meet a mentor talented and willing enough to teach you. So, I do not see a way you ever make discretionary trading work for yourself.
* You also seem to lack a strong interest or drive to develop the technical skills to delve into automated trading. If you really were interested in programming you would have already identified which language you should learn and apply to solve problems in automated trading. Instead you ask some absolute basic questions about programming courses as if we are still in the 1980s without internet and search engines.
You can forever reject to take advice even from those who appear arrogant and who you seem to not want to connect with. But that is possibly the biggest red flag and giveaway that clearly shows you just do not have the necessary drive to make it happen in trading.
Trading is possibly the most challenging career of them all. The market is a merciless judge each day, you can't just hang around and smile and pretend all is well, because at the end of the day you know exactly how you have performed and there is no lying about. What bloody newgrads on trading floors learn in the first week is to still ask questions even when being yelled at, even when being put down, even when the questions are considered stupid. If you want to make it in one of the most competitive jobs in the world then I believe you need to step up and shift into higher gear. You sound like a frustrated retail trader who tried all the typical Technical Analysis crap and, no surprise failed utterly, and burned a bundle of cash on the way. You can now stand around and continue day dreaming and hoping that some magic happens and you suddenly hold the holy grail in your hands or you can step up and admit that you need to work harder but especially SMARTER to really learn what it takes to acquire real knowledge that is marketable and that provides an edge. Or you can give up and move on and be an engineer or whatever else you chose.
Of course you can also go ahead and dismiss the sound advice of this arrogant bastard which is me. But I tell that your current attitude is just not sufficient to even make a mentor want to coach you, whether be physically at your location, here, or anyplace else. There are enough time wasters on this site, if you really want to learn then drop your own arrogant attitude and admit that you know shit about trading, and show you are willing to learn from whomever. But your last sentence already shows that you may have a hard time to drop your attitude.
Quote from Laissez Faire:
I spent a lot of time and research wading through crap before I even found something I wanted to delve deeper into. I think I was and am well on my way. It's not like I was totally clueless or oblivious to what the market was doing day by day. But considering my personal situation, I decided it was smart to get an education before it was too late.
Now, someone will probably say how that shows I don't have what it takes, am not dedicated enough and what have you, but I don't care and people can say what they want.
In one way, I regret choosing this path four years ago knowing what I know now. But on the other hand, I'm glad I took the risk and actually gave it a shot.
What makes you think I have not?
Trust me, I won't poke you with anything.
