Ask HN: What business you can start under $100?

Re:Ask HN: What business you can start under $100? by jklein11 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:46PM (#15916973)

Can I buy you a coffee and pick your brain a little bit? I'm not looking for your secret sauce, just looking to hear some of your war stories and learn about how you got started. If you are interested, my email address is in my profile.

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Re:Ask HN: What business you can start under $100? by SirLJ on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @03:34PM (#15917416)

War stories are usually not good...

For starting here is my advice: get a small linux VPS or just install python on your laptop, get as much back data as possible, covering at least one market cycle (this will be your initial expense) and start back testing every trading strategy you can find on the net or in books (library) for free...

Never pay for strategies, because they will all fail, but by testing them one by one you'll come up with your own ideas and one day hopefully you'll find your edge...

It's not going to be easy or "get rich quick thingy", but it is well worth it in the end...

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Re:Ask HN: What business you can start under $100? by uptown on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:06PM (#15919645)

Curious which platform you're writing your Python to trade with.

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Re:Ask HN: What business you can start under $100? by SirLJ on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:12AM (#15922821)

I am using my discount broker's API, pretty much every one now offers an API

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