OP 10 April, 2021 - 09:00 PM
I have just finished my MBA and work as a Quant analyst at an HFT firm. Seeing that people are getting more and more interested in trading (mainly due to the whole GME fiasco) is pretty cool.
I have been on Twitch as a viewer for a long time and there is some severe lack of educational content on the platforms.
There are more than a few trading streamers but most of them are into technical analysis and almost all of them just open their charting software, put some Moving averages and other indicators and their P/L or open trade positions, etc.. and call it a day.
I personally think that many people who are genuinely interested in trading but have gone on to study other subjects and want to make the switch or the people who don't know where to start and can't afford expensive “courses” and read dozens of books which are either too verbose and basic with no practical information or too advanced where its a headache just going through the pages. Due to corona we all have more time than we usually do in our lives and this gives us a perfect opportunity to learn something interesting with chat.
So which of the two streams would you guys be interested in personally?
Stream 1:
A stream that teaches Quant Finance and Algo Trading for free from start to finish, for all those who might be interested in getting started in trading.
It will assume that the viewers are absolute beginners and will take them from the most basic concepts to some pretty advanced topics.
It will cover:
1) The absolute basics with what are markets etc...
2) Equity,FX&Futures Strategies ( Strategy Building in Equities , Statistical Arbitrage and Pair trading , event based backtesting , etc)
3) Basic and Advanced Statistics for Quant Strategies
4) Portfolio Optimization & Risk Management
5) Coding in python, R, matlab (but mainly python) from scratch all the up to coding and implementing your own strategies
6 ) Machine Learning for Trading
7) and maybe options trading
All you will need is a laptop, internet, pen and paper. and by the time all the topics are covered you should be able to, at the very least, automate your trades.
This is not technical analysis! this would be a quantitative approach towards trading and there won't be any strategies given out because at the end of all this you should be able to come up with some pretty good and mathematically sound strategies yourself.
OR
Stream 2:
Tweaking a little bit of existing algos on stream and maybe backtesting and optimizing strategies but won't be able to show the big chunk of the code. Show the profitability ratios/analysis etc.. or we could look on the internet for some of the latest posted trading strategies and automate, backtest, optimize it etc. Also, maybe discuss the latest financial news and its potential impact and discuss research papers to come up with some strategies.
This is significantly less amount of work than stream1 but I see it as the majority of the viewers just mindlessly gawking at the screen and only a few would actually have a rough idea on what's happening.
If you were into this content then what would you prefer and why. I was just wondering what you guys think.
Thanks for the feedback
I have been on Twitch as a viewer for a long time and there is some severe lack of educational content on the platforms.
There are more than a few trading streamers but most of them are into technical analysis and almost all of them just open their charting software, put some Moving averages and other indicators and their P/L or open trade positions, etc.. and call it a day.
I personally think that many people who are genuinely interested in trading but have gone on to study other subjects and want to make the switch or the people who don't know where to start and can't afford expensive “courses” and read dozens of books which are either too verbose and basic with no practical information or too advanced where its a headache just going through the pages. Due to corona we all have more time than we usually do in our lives and this gives us a perfect opportunity to learn something interesting with chat.
So which of the two streams would you guys be interested in personally?
Stream 1:
A stream that teaches Quant Finance and Algo Trading for free from start to finish, for all those who might be interested in getting started in trading.
It will assume that the viewers are absolute beginners and will take them from the most basic concepts to some pretty advanced topics.
It will cover:
1) The absolute basics with what are markets etc...
2) Equity,FX&Futures Strategies ( Strategy Building in Equities , Statistical Arbitrage and Pair trading , event based backtesting , etc)
3) Basic and Advanced Statistics for Quant Strategies
4) Portfolio Optimization & Risk Management
5) Coding in python, R, matlab (but mainly python) from scratch all the up to coding and implementing your own strategies
6 ) Machine Learning for Trading
7) and maybe options trading
All you will need is a laptop, internet, pen and paper. and by the time all the topics are covered you should be able to, at the very least, automate your trades.
This is not technical analysis! this would be a quantitative approach towards trading and there won't be any strategies given out because at the end of all this you should be able to come up with some pretty good and mathematically sound strategies yourself.
OR
Stream 2:
Tweaking a little bit of existing algos on stream and maybe backtesting and optimizing strategies but won't be able to show the big chunk of the code. Show the profitability ratios/analysis etc.. or we could look on the internet for some of the latest posted trading strategies and automate, backtest, optimize it etc. Also, maybe discuss the latest financial news and its potential impact and discuss research papers to come up with some strategies.
This is significantly less amount of work than stream1 but I see it as the majority of the viewers just mindlessly gawking at the screen and only a few would actually have a rough idea on what's happening.
If you were into this content then what would you prefer and why. I was just wondering what you guys think.
Thanks for the feedback
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