Building Taciturn — What I've Learned Building an Algo Trading System From Scratch
Where It Started It started with a Trading212 account and a simple ambition: make money faster than manually clicking buy and sell. I was trading CFDs — leveraged, volatile, unforgiving — and my results were inconsistent in the way that most manual trading is inconsistent. Good instincts, bad discipline, no system. The obvious next step was to build one. I wanted something that could either call out entry and exit points, or act on them automatically. The latter was more appealing. So I started teaching myself Python, scanning Yahoo Finance for daily peaks and troughs, and building scripts that would tell me when to buy or sell based on price movement thresholds. That was version one — around 700 lines of code, no broker integration, no execution. ...