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>>505041
Thread was pretty kek until you showed up, so I'll bump one last time with some more questions if you're up for it:

How many self-directed guys are there that do this successfully do you think? Do you know any? Is it really as lonely as you say?

>I built my own analysis and trading platform specifically for designing and executing autonomous strategies.
Mind if I ask what language(s) you went with? Do you use a traditional RDBMS for storage or is it something exotic like kdb+?

Do you incorporate order book data or regime analysis into your strategies, or is it just 'simple' stat-arb on raw time-series data?

Lastly, what do you tell friends, family or the guy you're sitting next to on a plane what you do for a living? I was in financial services for many years and it was easy to discuss work back then, but I wouldn't tell my dog that I was a quant/HF day trader.