After being bored in lockdown in 2020 I, like many others, started to day trade the US stock market. After a while of delving into the market though I quickly realized humans are at a distinct disadvantage. Computers are faster, more reliable, and unemotional.
Hence this project.
I found a trading platform that allowed algorithm trading, TradeStation, learned their Java-based language, and built some pattern recognition into it.
Does it work? Yes. Does it make money? No. Why does it not make money? Because the patterns I hard-coded into the program worked in the past, and not currently.
The next step for future projects will to build a program that takes recent priceing&volume data to learn patterns to then trade.