Hello, I am a well versed programmer knowledgeable in common languages that are both fast and functional. I am looking for someone that has a trading strategy or idea for a platform. I am interested to build a system using IB Gateway, Python wrapper for IB, and Erlang to read market data, analyze it, then execute trades. Let me know if this interests you.
Well... you can look first here for how to become a quant: http://www.turingfinance.com/how-to-be-a-quant/ and then here for how to develop a trading strategy: http://www.financial-hacker.com/build-better-strategies-part-3-the-development-process/ There are a million ways...
That is a really interesting cycle pattern, that could work around Crude leveraged etfs given the current volatility.