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Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals
Everything you need to go from manual trader to deploying your first live strategy — indicators, conditions, actions, backtesting, and deployment. Six articles.…
The building blocks I Watched My Portfolio Crash From a Cornell Lecture Hall — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals Four types of indicators Why Technical Analysis Alone Will Lose You Money — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals Conditions & actions Conditions and Actions: Turning Indicators into Trading Decisions — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals Build your first strategy Build Your First Algorithmic Trading Strategy — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals
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Education

I created an algorithm that improves any investment strategy. Here’s how it works.

When I was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon, I learned about a rare and powerful algorithm – genetic optimization.…

January 3, 2025
Platform Updates

I just transformed “trading with AI” into a video game

There are 100 excuses people make for why they fail to make money in the stock market. Most of it comes from inexperien…

January 3, 2025
Platform Updates

Here's how (and why) I created robust, scalable, in-app tutorials for my web application

Nobody is “taught” how to use Facebook. When you create a Facebook account, you learn to use it “on-the-fly”. Just from…

January 1, 2025
Education

This app teaches you how to become a Wall Street-grade trader, step-by-step, with no prior coding knowledge required

When I showed my dad my algorithmic trading platform, his first reaction was deep confusion. My dad is an extremely int…

January 1, 2025
Platform Updates

I single-handedly built the world’s best AI investing platform. Here’s NexusTrade’s 2024 year in review

When someone asks me what is the best way to learn how to trade and invest, I have an unbiased answer – NexusTrade.io. I…

December 28, 2024
AI & Automation

I just tried OpenAI’s updated o1 model. This technology will BREAK Wall Street

When I first tried the o1-preview model, released in mid-September, I was not impressed. Unlike traditional large langua…

December 22, 2024
Education

I just gained access to the new and improved o1 model. Here’s how I’m using it to time the market

With the stock market down over 5% in the past week, many new investors are asking themselves this question: Should I s…

December 21, 2024
Platform Updates

Why it took so long for my algorithmic trading platform to execute real trades

Last weekend, I re-watched one of my favorite movies: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.  In the movie, Miles Morales wa…

December 18, 2024
Platform Updates

🎉 Real-time Trading with Alpaca is officially launched!

🎉 Live-Trading is officially launched! Live-trading is now available on NexusTrade! Please note that live-trading is on…

December 18, 2024