Who am I?
I’m Jeff James, and I’m basically a hobbiest in this field. I love it, I’m fascinated by it, and I like to try different things to see how they work. I’ve learned some hard lessons in my trading experience, but have had some nice wins too. I’ll share those older stories in different articles and posts as it makes sense. But, I’ll share the current wins and losses live for anything new that I’m working on.
I have dabbled in programming for many years, this will reveal my age, but in high school, I had some Basic and Pascal. After that, in tech school, I took programming classes for Assembly, AS/400, Cobol, and Qbasic… Then I got into web programming which was so exciting to have hosted server-based apps in PHP/MySQL… that got me into some Laravel programming. And, now, I’ve been working more with Python. I can’t believe how easy it is to get into such complicated programming with Python. I love it. There’s so many prebuilt API’s that already work with it, it makes it easy to get started very quickly.
Note: If some of these languages or terms sound confusing, please don’t worry, this is just my history, most of which doesn’t really apply. I just want you know to know I’ve been programming for many years, and that Python will be the easiest way into this. We’ll talk more about it in other posts, but when I show an algorithm, you’ll be able to make a copy of it, update a couple items, and then try it live with your own brokerage account. It can be that easy, but I’ll also want you to understand what it is the code is doing too, not just copy and hope it works.
Who are you?
Please head over to the Contact page and send me a hello. Tell me about yourself, and why you’re interested in the world of automated trading. I’ll do my best to respond to every comment and email. Even if you don’t want to introduce yourself, I’m glad you’re here and reading.