AlgorithmicTrading Mentorship
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Mode: Online (Live + Hands-on)Duration: ~32 Hours + ProjectsPre requisites: Curiosity, basic trading knowledge.
The real edge in today’s markets isn’t gut feel, it’s data-driven decision making.
Algorithmic trading lets you test, validate, and execute strategies at scale, stripping out noise, bias, and guesswork.
Imagine if you could
Test ideas fast
Test thousands of trading ideas in minutes instead of days.
Validate before risking
Validate what actually works with data before even risking your capital.
Never miss opportunities
Automate backtesting & alerts so you’re notified on time.
Build your own screeners
Stop relying on tips; craft screeners aligned to your strategy.
What Makes This Different?
Code from Day 1
No prior coding needed. Learn by doing with guided, hands-on drills.
Practical mini-projects
Build useful tools each week.
Your own framework
End with a reusable backtesting & evaluation framework in Python.
What You’ll Build
Intraday backtesting
Robust infra to test intraday strategies with realistic assumptions.
Validation metrics
Correctly compute: sharpe, drawdowns, win-rate, expectancy, and more.
Portfolio testing
Combine strategies at a portfolio level and evaluate interactions.
Alerts & screeners
Semi-automated screeners and notifications to act on signals.
Systematic mindset
Trade with pre-defined rules, no gambling.
Mentorship Roadmap
1) Backtesting Basics
Why & how to backtest; pitfalls to avoid.
2) Python Setup
Starter kit; coding essentials you’ll actually use.
3) Pandas Workflow
Clean, reshape, and wrangle market data the right way.
4) Time-Series & Viz
Time-aware operations; visual analytics for insights.
5) Data Cleaning
Gaps, outliers, holiday handling and preparing data for testing.
6) Intraday & Positional
Design, test, and iterate across regimes.
7) Validation & Optimisation
Robust metrics, walk-forward ideas, avoid overfit.
8) Multi-Strategy & Risk
Portfolio construction & position sizing.
9) Screeners & Alerts
Semi-automation for timely, rule-based action.
Capstone Project: Test and validate one positional & one intraday strategy of your own.
Outcome
Confidence to trade systematically with a personal, extensible research stack.