Hello everyone,
I'm an Economics graduate pursuing a career in trading. I was wondering if any of you is aware of an algorithmic trading "bible", that is a very well recognised guide or book on algorithmic trading. I'm looking for something introductory as I have no experience in algorithm building.
Thank you everyone!
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I would learn programming and probability prior to learning anything about algorithmic trading.
When speaking about programming, are you referring to some language/tool in particular? If so, do you have a book to suggest for that?
Depends how serious you are. If you actually want to pursue a career in building trading algorithms, you would likely need to get a formal degree in computer science. If you really want to self-study, then you could probably pick up the 'python for data analysis' or 'python for finance' books.
https://www.amazon.com/Python-Data-Analysis-Wrangling-IPython/dp/144931…
Yes, definitely the second one. Thank you for the links.
So would you say Python is more useful? I was assuming C/C++ were the languages to start from ..
Start with Murphy book on Technical Analysis
Not really a bible, but well known are Ernest Chan's book on algo trading. Also more accessible by non-technical people.
Thank you. I'll take a look at that. Do you mean this one?
https://www.amazon.it/dp/B00CY5HC0U/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UT…
yes, or this one https://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Trading-Build-Algorithmic-Business/… , whatever suits you. But as another poster already mentioned if you are really serious first do the math and programming, but that takes a lot more dedication and time of course.
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