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Re:Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf] by lordnacho on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:42AM (#19215723)
Algo trader here. This document is fantastic.

I think it's hard to show, but coding is of paramount importance. General skills like keeping things in version control, writing simple code, and making things modular. But also quite advanced specific topics like CRTP or cache optimization. Could be a whole book in itself without the financial parts.

Re:Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf] by CoolGuySteve on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:48AM (#19217621)
Watch out, if you get too good at technology they’ll stick you in the back office and never let you trade, or even see what the pnl is.
Re:Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf] by soVeryTired on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:43AM (#19218094)
Back office's job is trade reconciliation, pnl, and accounting.
Re:Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf] by jmrobertson on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:00AM (#19217270)
Yeah it's always worth remembering how heavily fundamental engineering work processes come into play. Knight Capital went down for a manual deployment error, of all things