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Hi all,
I don't know which rabbit hole I went down to discover Quantconnect, however I am absolutely loving everything about it! I have played with Python for a few years now, however developing an algortihm to help manage my investment portfolio is a new endeavour for me entirely. I have been looking through recent community discussions and I am amazed to see the open source spirit alive and well. It's helping reduce my learning curve quite a bit!
As I'm based in Canada, we're allowed to day trade (or engage in strategies that could be considered day trading) with smaller account sizes. I was wondering if anyone has developed any algorithms specifically designed for working with less capital? Are there particular discussions from past threads that someone could point me towards? Who has a crazy, comprehensive GitHub account full of code that has solved this problem 9 different ways? Please understand, I am not looking for "answers" to getting rich quick, by any means. I'm simply looking for beautiful code to help me understand this wonderful puzzle that sits before me.
Conor Flynn
If you have less capital, I'd recommend starting out with a scalping strategy which is what I use for my smaller accounts. I don't have any code for a scalping strategy however I'm sure with some research you could certainly come up with a great algorithm :)
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Beaux Walton
Thanks for the heads up, Conor. Do you currently automate any aspect of your small account trading? Have you found any particular discussion thread, algorithm or code example to be helpful?
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