Does anyone know how coding can help me in investing?
I recently started learning coding, and it’s surprising how much it’s helping my investing journey.At first, I thought coding was only for developers, but once I began exploring it, I realized how powerful it can be for analysing markets, testing strategies, and even avoiding emotional decisions.
I’ve been experimenting with small scripts to track price movements, filter stocks/forex pairs, and backtest simple ideas and honestly, it’s opened a whole new way of looking at data. Instead of guessing, I’m making decisions backed by actual numbers.
If anyone else has used coding to improve their trading or investing, I’d love to hear your experiences. What tools or languages did you start with, and what made the biggest difference for you?
Python + pandas/backtrader changed my process—I built a tiny risk-per-trade calculator and a walk-forward backtest, which stripped out a lot of bias. Coding also forces me to log every trade and let the stats talk. What data sources/tools are you starting with?
Mdraghib posted:I recently started learning coding, and it’s surprising how much it’s helping my investing journey.At first, I thought coding was only for developers, but once I began exploring it, I realized how powerful it can be for analysing markets, testing strategies, and even avoiding emotional decisions.
I’ve been experimenting with small scripts to track price movements, filter stocks/forex pairs, and backtest simple ideas and honestly, it’s opened a whole new way of looking at data. Instead of guessing, I’m making decisions backed by actual numbers.
If anyone else has used coding to improve their trading or investing, I’d love to hear your experiences. What tools or languages did you start with, and what made the biggest difference for you?
I am totally agree with @ortellius. Actually, i love python in development of trading strategy. As a software developer, i used Python for AI/ML so far. But nowadays i am using it in automation, backtesting, optimization and so on. In other words, Python is powerful in trading area also. And AI trading is new trend. Python has some tools such as Backtrader/Zipline/PyAlgoTrade (backtesting), TA-Lib (technical indicators), ccxt (crypto exchanges).
