Ask HN: Has anyone setup successful algo trading (retail)?

3 points by voiceclonr 9 years ago | 2 comments

There was a recent thread on Zipline that had some interest. Would be interesting to have a survey to know if any retail trader has been successful setting up an automating trading system at all ?

intellectable 9 years ago |

I have yet to find the time to do this myself, but my research concluded that Michael Halls-Moore's @mhallsmoore blog project qsforex[0] is the best place to start. I have used Oanda as a broker and found their service to be great. Plus, As far as I know Oanda is the first to the retail market with an open API. Although, I haven't yet used Oanda's API[1] as mentioned in the setup. Check out quantstart's write ups[2] for the best info on getting started with algo trading.

[0] https://github.com/mhallsmoore/qsforex [1] https://www.quantstart.com/articles/Forex-Trading-Diary-1-Au... [2] https://www.quantstart.com/articles#algorithmic-trading

voiceclonr 9 years ago | |

Interactive Brokers can be used as well (I have heard Oanda's fills are not as good as Interactive Brokers). I am looking to see if anyone has actually setup a profitable system.