Hi All, i've been trading for several years now. I'm nearing retirement age, so I've been looking to get into Algo trading as a 'hobby' and an intellectual challenge.
I learned to code back in the early 90's in Uni. I never coded for my career - I've spent 30 years as a mechanical engineer never needing code - just using impressive software packages that did the hard number crunching for me.
So, I started to look into algo trading, since many of my strategies can be automated. I started to learn Python (I had learned C++ way back in the day, but have forgotten most of it). Holy hell. With AI coding agents now this journey is going to be so much easier than back in the day. I'm floored with what I can ask Claude to do for me. Or even how in Google Colab the damn autocomplete is so good it's like it's reading my mind.
This AI stuff is existential in the coding world. It makes all of this almost too easy, and that's a danger, because how do you fix something you don't understand? Anyways, I'm happy to be here and learn from all of you folks who are probably way smarter than I am.