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I'm about to start a Masters in computer science for people with little experience in computing (so, its a generalist degree) mainly to attain more practical/ technical skills. On the other hand I am fairly knowledgeable (in my opinion) in understanding market order flow and am a profitable retail trader (small account, recent grad in economics). Obviously I see enormous synergy between programming skills and basically automating what I do across all markets in multi-time frames.
And therein lies the problem - as a computer layman, I don't know where to go from here. The course I am taking (starting in Sept 12), aside from the fact that it won't take me too far, will definitely include a lot of Java. The major issue I am having is how focused I should be with my studies. I can see myself being obsessed with programming the system and making it work, parallel to my studies which will be in other areas of Computing too. I really don't see myself being able to make my own platform, getting my own feed to work, executing with my own trades, risk managing my own stuff. (would you agree? if I can, can I work this into the masters thesis?) and not sure if there is much value in doing this considering heavy initial fixed investment required (maybe this is wrong)
I am not very knowledgable but perhaps there are retail algo trading providers in which I only have to worry about programming the trading system. I presume there is a lot of self-teaching in many areas to be done. Can someone advise me on what to learn ?
Cheers for reading the babble.. I feel like I am entering an important part of life, so feel a bit desperate and lost ..
Thanks again.
I'm about to start a Masters in computer science for people with little experience in computing (so, its a generalist degree) mainly to attain more practical/ technical skills. On the other hand I am fairly knowledgeable (in my opinion) in understanding market order flow and am a profitable retail trader (small account, recent grad in economics). Obviously I see enormous synergy between programming skills and basically automating what I do across all markets in multi-time frames.
And therein lies the problem - as a computer layman, I don't know where to go from here. The course I am taking (starting in Sept 12), aside from the fact that it won't take me too far, will definitely include a lot of Java. The major issue I am having is how focused I should be with my studies. I can see myself being obsessed with programming the system and making it work, parallel to my studies which will be in other areas of Computing too. I really don't see myself being able to make my own platform, getting my own feed to work, executing with my own trades, risk managing my own stuff. (would you agree? if I can, can I work this into the masters thesis?) and not sure if there is much value in doing this considering heavy initial fixed investment required (maybe this is wrong)
I am not very knowledgable but perhaps there are retail algo trading providers in which I only have to worry about programming the trading system. I presume there is a lot of self-teaching in many areas to be done. Can someone advise me on what to learn ?
Cheers for reading the babble.. I feel like I am entering an important part of life, so feel a bit desperate and lost ..
Thanks again.
