Why you should learn to code

Andras said:
Do you think I can still learn coding at the age of 30? I mean how long will I spend learning it.
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Yes, but it's a lot easier when you're young and have the energy for it.
Basically, you have to spend a lot of time staring at the monitor, often trying to figure out other people's code, unless you're coding everything by yourself.
 
gaussian said:
This is false. I've trained people to be a competent junior level programmer in sub 6 months.
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Depends on your definition of junior programmer. My definition of a junior programmer is one with a computer science degree, or equivalent experience, who can get an entry level position in the industry. I still wouldn't hire him to implement my strategies.

Can someone do functional programming, maybe with scripting languages like Python, - sure. But I would not trust that level of skill to do anything complicated.

I am not saying this because I have a computer degree - I do not. I am self taught. I had a mentor who helped me learn object oriented programming using C++ and he hired me trusting in his knowledge of my talent, not my skill. It still took me about 2 years to get competent.

I am not discouraging anyone from going down this road. The OP says he is 30 years old, so it is really doable. I am just providing my background for reference.
 
cafeole said:
I am not discouraging anyone from going down this road. The OP says he is 30 years old, so it is really doable. I am just providing my background for reference.
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Actually, I'm 62, will be 63 next month. My first coding adventure was on a CDC mainframe in Fortran and later Compass assembler. Then on to Pascal, C, and later C++ and some Java and C#.
 
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Do you apply your programming knowledge in your trading? I use C# for all my web scraping data analytical tools. I really like Microsoft's VS Community IDE, and the more recent VS Code IDE. Their new "minimap" code scrolling feature is just delightful.
 
zenoftrading said:
Do you apply your programming knowledge in your trading? I use C# for all my web scraping data analytical tools. I really like Microsoft's VS Community IDE, and the more recent VS Code IDE. Their new "minimap" code scrolling feature is just delightful.
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I've written a ton of strategies in C# for NT, none very profitable afaik. It seems to me that coding is the easy part, finding a profitable strategy is the hard part.
 
kandlekid said:
...... It seems to me that coding is the easy part, finding a profitable strategy is the hard part.
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Agreed. Junior-level or beginner coding is pretty straight-forward ... obviously complex software development takes a little more experience :)
Finding a profitable strategy ... or a set of profitable trading strategies ... that's usable for more than a short period of time ... is like the goose that laid the golden egg :D
 
Truth Searcher said:
The process is to combine risk management, psychology and a market edge of some kind to take money from other trading accounts that belong to very smart participants in a zero sum game. Extremely difficult. There is no mathematical formula that will ever do this. Programming can be helpful but it is not the full answer or solution.
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it can be programmed. even if the process is all gut feel you can program in randomness
 
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