I am very happy with the way the group project is going. My team is great, and I really like our mission of building a democratized algorithm based trading platform. It is the perfect intersection of investing/finance with computer science. I have been investing since I turned 18, but very passively – doing a buy and hold strategy as I deem day trading to be equivalent to gambling. However, I had not previously given algorithm based trading a fair chance, it is easy to put holes in the theory, but over the years I saw a few articles about how a certain fund perfected it and had enormous returns, beating out nearly everyone. I still stick by following the greats of Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and Peter Lynch, but I do have an interest to run a small portfolio with an optimized algorithmic model for dun and to learn along the way. I am hoping during this project with my team lead I will learn a lot of valuable information to do this more effectively.
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