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Things are moving along smoothly so far but the course is moving very fast. We have gotten a lot if tips and feedback from our sponsor. We are all at the point of coding now. Our team agreed to just start coding on the topics we researched from the prior week. I took on the second principle of momentum precedes price. So, I implements technical indicators of momentum which include rate of change and relative strength index. I have created a simple algorithm that takes the cash and invests in stock that displays a low RSI of 30. If its RSI is move than 70, then the algorithm will sell off this stock. The ROC is also coupled with RSI to see how much the momentum is moving and how its pace begins to slow down. From here, as a group we need to decide how we can incorporate all our new algorithms together to form something that exhibits all for principles for trading.

This is becoming more interesting as we progress. The only thing I dread is getting blocked for too long. There are resources that helped me so far, but I am not sure how things will pan out as the code begins mor complexity.

I am feeling good about this project and my team. We are making some great head way in setting up our code base. I have found a plethora of resources to help me understand certain topics that I will try to implement into algorithms for finding the trends for momentum. I found indicators such as RSI and MACD and price rate of change that can used in conjunction to help Identify trends. There are code examples I found online that I think will help me get started as well. The other topic that I was researching was the volatility of trading – the expansion and contraction of trading. Subjects like trend identification and Bollinger bands were introduced to me for the first time. This next coming sprint I plan of creating code based off what I have learned in trading strategies. I find trading to be an interesting field. I am having a lot of fun!

I had a long week of troubleshooting why example code was not running. I just bought a new laptop and had to install all new versions of software, etc. I do not enjoy trouble shooting for fixes on things I am not too familiar with. Constantly googling and trying out solutions and mucking around with configurations on the computer was nerve wrecking. New config changes could potentially cause more problems than I originally had.

I found my installation of the IDE used was set up incorrectly for the QuantConnect Lean Engine that our group is using for this project. I also found that the latest version of Python (3.10) was causing problems with the CLI feature. It was a huge a relief to get those issues ironed out.

This week our team is going to begin exploring more code on algorithms, hopefully. We are meeting our sponsor today to get a better understanding on next steps. Our sponsor has been great in sharing knowledge in this area and has shared important documentation for us to reference as we begin.

I am very thankful to be in this journey others that are really supportive!

So far I have met and interacted with my group and I can say they are great. Both teammates are very on the ball about getting assignments worked on and reaching out to the stakeholder of the project. We are are working on testing stock market algorithms with a tool called QuantConnect Lean. So, far I have downloaded and installed the program. I am trying to figure out how to load stock data at this point and time. The resources available for this program is really good, very welll-documented. I am glad there are videos to help with running it as well. So far, our group is creating the beginnings of the project plan and it has come together quite nicely. We still have a few questions from out stake holder that needs to be answered before we can submit the project plan.