I started my first course. And gave up after 15 minutes.

After a superficial search for the best algo trading tutorial, I arrived at this YouTube video from freeCodeCamp, an organization I’m very familiar with. The video was created by Luke Hardy; his real name is Lachezar Haralampiev. But enough with the cyber-stalking and let’s dive into the course!

The course starts with an overview of algorithmic trading, and the 3 projects that will be covered. The usual warnings - it’s very hard to predict prices yada yada.

But wait! There’s a little nugget of information - apparently it’s not so hard to predict volatility. I need to look into that more, maybe there are some instruments based on volatility measurements that I could potentially trade, like the VIX.

Luke proceeds to the first project - an unsupervised learning trading strategy that uses technical indicators. We’re doing a lot of data manipulation, but I’m already starting to feel demoralized for a couple of reasons:

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