Building a Trading System as an IT Guy
Building a Trading System as an IT Guy
I build systems for a living. Most of my day is spent on uptime, redundancy, and logical flows. When I started trading, I looked for the same things. I did not want a gut feeling or a ‘hunch’ based on a Twitter thread. I wanted a set of rules that could run without me.
The IT background helps with the logic. 5/10/20 weekly EMA stacks are just conditional statements. If price is above the stack and the stack is rising, the trend is up. If SPY is below the 200-day moving average, the regime is bear. These are not suggestions. They are the codebase of the strategy.
The hardest part is not the logic, but the execution. In IT, if the code is right, the result is consistent. In trading, you can follow the rules perfectly and still hit a stop loss. That is the bug I had to get used to. I am building this in public to keep the documentation honest. No hindsight bias and no deleted history. Just a system running on a €1,000 bankroll to see if the logic holds up under real market stress.
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