A Quantopian Alternative that for those New to Coding and Finance (2024)

He worked at a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund and taught financial programming to Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world.

Lucas has been featured on Investopedia and is one of the most viewed writers on Algorithmic Trading on Quora.

You can read more about him on Quora and his blog.

Lucas and his team designed AlgoTrading101 to be the education program they wished they had when they started trading.

Yes, this programme is designed for beginners. The programme is prepared in a progressive manner. It entails a graphical, step-by-step approach with minimal technical jargon.

But, of course, you will need to put in more effort than someone with a stronger background in trading to master the content.

If you can code MQL4 or Python well, you can skip the basic coding lectures. The value you gain will come mainly from the lectures on trading strategy research, testing and execution on investor marketplaces.

Learning how each chess piece moves (Coding) is the first step. Learning how to beat other players (Strategy Design) is the hard part.

No, it is not. The programme content is not specific to any asset class. However, we use Forex for most of our examples in AT101 initially as it is beginner friendly.

In the later chapters of AT101, we will look at other asset classes (using CFDs) such as equities, commodities and cryptocurrencies.

We will mainly use stocks, bonds, commodities and cryptocurrencies in our PT101 course.

Join our wait list and we will notify you when enrolment opens. The average waiting time is about 2 months (as of Jan 2019).

The programme never ends! It is a completely self-paced online programme - you decide how fast you want go and when you finish. We regularly add content to the course.

This programme teaches practical skills and pushes you to trade and raise trading capital from investors.

Other courses are generally more theoretical.

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If you don't know what is algorithmic trading then this site must be quite confusing so far :D

Algorithmic Trading is essentially trading in an automated manner using code. You build trading robots that will analyse and trade the market on their own.

More info here: Definition: Algorithmic Trading - Wiki @ AlgoTrading101

It is possible to launch a trading robot within a week of taking the course, but we do not recommend that.

As a general rule of thumb, you should be confident enough to launch your robot within 1 to 3 months after finishing the course.

Zero dollars again. We can launch our robots with virtual money to see how they perform.

As for the minimum required for trading, 500 USD will more than suffice.

The initial aim when launching robots with real money should be to learn as much as possible. It is not to triple our capital by taking too much risks.

No, it probably won't.

The markets are evolving at an increasing rate. Old methods become obsolete quicker. We need to adapt as the market evolves.

Our current content might not be relevant. However, we will be adding/removing/modifying our content constantly to stay relevant over time. As an AlgoTrading101 member, you get all updates for no extra charge.

"I was taking coding courses when I stumble upon this course. I decided to give it a try and, wow! I basically stopped everything else to complete this course as quickly as possible.

Fascinating! And Lucas is doing a phenomenal job, in my opinion, at teaching an extremely complex system that involves knowledge/interest in coding, macro & micro economies, mathematics ( probabilities ), statistics and financials.

Great work Lucas, I only wish I could meet you in person one day!"

"I have been trading forex using one strategy that works and I would like to have an expert advisor that can do that too. I have this interest in MQL4 programming. I learned a lot from AlgoTrading101. Quite challenging to figure out how.

Now I have created my very own expert advisor that works as I expected. This expert advisor have been trading for the past 3 weeks and the account balance have increased exponentially from USD 500 to USD 10,000. This is quite an amazing achievement, however, there is still room for improvements. Thanks to Lucas, AlgoTrading101. Your guidance is greatly appreciated."

"For months I have been taking online course regarding program and I have not come up with a good project idea. Now I do, thanks to Lucas's Algo Trading course.

He breaks down the syntax of MQ4 and makes it very readable for any beginner who has never been exposed to programming.

I honestly cannot wait to take the tools Lucas has taught me and apply them to the real world. 5-STARS my man!!"

"I have not finished the course yet so my review may change once I am done. The instructor does a good job teaching the absolute basics of creating a robot, but I am far from ready to create my own trading system.

The instructor does seem like he cares a lot about helping his students out. Will update when I finish the course."

This is one of the most valuable courses I ever did in terms of value for money and I did not feel bored for a moment. It seems you have a lot of insight and are very analytical.

So far I think I should give you more than 100% rating for this course but unfortunately that is not possible. Thank you for putting this course together. It seems you put a lot of effort and experience in the training and the information is very complete and all parts seem very necessary and valuable to me.

You are also honest and I like that. Sales people tend to only tell you the good parts and that creates misconceptions and crazy unreal expectations."

"Very suitable for non-programmers who want to try their hands on algorithmic trading. This course is easy to follow, with numerous detailed examples and practices, which is far more than other MOOCs I have gone through. A very useful skill for those with other work obligations.

I have witnessed people blaming online courses for not providing them the results they want, and I would say that there is no course who can spoon feed you till you become profitable.

With hours and hours of practice of the material in the course, along with my own research, I went from not knowing how to code, to finally being able to create my own trading robots in a few weeks. Thanks Lucas for this course!"

"...now I can properly understand why no single strategy will be an end all success, why you need to adapt, adjust and create new ones over time, how to test for robustness properly, what to avoid, and how to come up with new ideas.

I'm still just getting started in some sense, but I'd like to really thank you as I'm sure there's no way I would have got to where I am (avoiding so many easy pitfalls and with an ability to create and test solid strategies) without this course."

"Been trading for more than 15 years now developing a lot of algos and yet I find this course FULL of nuggets of valuable info.

Using it as a jumping off point for more research via Investopedia, google et al has made things even better!"

"I have completed a few algorithmic EA courses and none come close to this course.

Lucas does not take for granted that the students know everything about coding EA's, he explains in detail every aspect so you walk away with an excellent understanding.

Thanks Lucas, I have enjoyed the course so far and look forward to continuing my journey."

"Very comprehensive course! Has given me way more in practical terms than reading a few books on algorithmic trading did.

Highly recommended even if you´re aspiring towards trading instruments or strategies not available via metatrader 4 as theories and programming basics in this course have a wide appliance."

"Lucas has the amazing skill of teaching hard concepts like position sizing, automatic trading all in a step by step graphic approach.

The guy has the maths, the high tech, and the imagination to teach you easily for dummies and newbies. I want to be like him .

PS: the course is excellent. Now on (lecture) 42 . I stopped to write this review. u Won´t regret if you are a noob with basic programming skills."

"Excellent, Excellent course! The instructor explains everything very very well, step by step and I would highly recommend taking the course or any course by this instructor.

I asked him many questions, he answered them all . Thank you Lucas"