This past Monday, Feb 25th, I finally managed to get small part of my automated trading strategies ready for live trading on TradeStation. It was one hell of a long journey to convert my algorithms from my custom trading platforms onto a retail broker platform. I learned a lot from the process and gained incredible insights into some many areas in trading that I thought I already know.
As the Chinese proverbs say,
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step – Tao Te Ching, Laozi
千里之行，始於足下 – 道德經, 老子
The moment I decided to move onto this path, I know it is going to be a huge commitment on my part to get to the finish line. So many obstacles and road blocks making this project such a huge challenge. I just looked up my blog posts and found that the earliest post about my intention was back in March 2017. That was two years ago.
I was so overwhelmed by the difficulties that I kind of giving up to write about the progress. There are just so many issues to tackle in various areas of trading making it hard to decide on what to write about. I did not write about it but I do keep notes on everything. That’s my habit all these years. I even recommended the practice to all traders in my writings all the time.
This is not the end of the journey though since my goal is to convert multiple sets of algorithms into live trading strategies that work on various retail platforms so more work has to be done.
I am very glad that I have chosen to walk down this path. At this point of the journey, majority of the technical issues are now taken care of. I am at a happy place to say that the rest of the journey will focus on more strategic development of my automated trading. I will have time freed up to catch up with writing about this amazing experience.
I am setting up a page in my blog for this series finally,
https://thelawrencechan.com/my-journey-to-fully-automate-my-trading/
Enjoy the show!
best of luck Lawrence, keep going mate. Best John