I wrote an algorithm that will give you a stock that will make .5% the next day...BUT

No, what you say is theoretical perception. It has nothing to do with the experience of real traders, which indicates the opposite exactly. Nowadays markets are playgrounds for fake orders and fake liquidity.

Trading and especially trading systems will change your perception of your capabilities and after a while you will realize the difference in doing reasearch with repeatable deterministic and non-repeatable stochastic processes. They are two different worlds that do not overlap much. Many are succesful in the former domain, very few in the later.

 

0.5% is liquid stocks is a very small change and not good enough for stop size.

 

custom built software from ground up using c#, sql and wrapped up c++ libraries when necessary

 

Yes, exactly! It is theoretical perception with my sole purpose to test feasibility in the real world.

No shit

Seriously, you suck at reading comprehension.

 

It seems a majority of posters on this forum do also. Or is it just me?

 

That's a lot of work. Do you use quantlib library ?

Do you visualize your output?

 

I think that depends on stock price and liquidity of that particular stock.

 

I use everything literally from the ground up. While I am quite unexceptional and ignorant when it comes to the stock market, I am quite exceptional at mathematics and programming

 

My thoughts exactly

 

I'd hate to trade with pure algorithms nowadays, seems the competition is bound to eat you up.