I'd agree. The margins on commoditised instruments are very tight now. The institutions make their money by outsourcing as many component pieces...
To be fair, anyone who says they "use Excel" professionally in a trading/modelling environment will at least also use VBA, if not their...
Excel - it is hard to imagine a world without it.
Unless you really are interested in exploring C/C#/VB/Java/Python (it'll never be a waste to at least explore some of these languages) you do not...
Those who will be successful will have the knowledge to recognise what wheels have already been invented. Only if your stretegy is so novel and...
I don't think anyone was talking about whether the strategies were effective or not. A generic strategy is merely a class of strategy. It is not...
Strange as it may seem, I like using Microsoft because besides it being a great platform, Bill Gates has donated the vast majority of his wealth...
a lot of commercial software I currently pay for used to be open source. In addition, open source doesn't automatically mean good support,...
I'd strongly recommend you go for C# and Python. They both can serve a wide range of requirements, are easy for a diligent beginner to get...
Perhaps trend-following is the wrong name for a generic strategy type; it could be "technical chart signals" as that could include trends,...
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