• use an API to get real time data on stock price, volume, bid/ask, etc

• place buy and sell orders and track

• minimize latency

• algo to generate buy/sell signal

• risk management (hedging)

• python, sockets, NLP

• pairs trading

• mean reversion

• momentum trading

• cointegration

two APIs,

• one gathers information about a stock every 5 minutes
• other makes move paper traded moves on market

1. ingest real time financial data, from various exchanges and data providers

• reduce latentenct

2. signal generation

3. order execution

https://github.com/nlohmann/json

voting system? have 5 algos race and generate buy, hold, sell signal. we take majority of first 4 returned and excecute trade

use alpaca API to make paper trades on live market

• will start with 100k and simulate our profits/loss using algos