📅 2024-01-12 — Session: Developed Comprehensive Investment and Trading Strategies

🕒 20:40–21:25
🏷️ Labels: Investment, Algorithmic Trading, Financial Data, Portfolio Management
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session focused on developing comprehensive strategies for investment and algorithmic trading.

Key Activities

  • Investment Strategy Assessment: Emphasized dollar-cost averaging, diversification, and risk management.
  • Portfolio Creation: Guided on constructing a diversified portfolio with $5,000.
  • Stocks and ETFs Strategy: Focused on investing in technology and healthcare sectors using algorithmic trading.
  • Algorithmic Trading Development: Outlined software selection, algorithm development, and backtesting.
  • Market Data Sources: Explored free and paid sources for market data essential for trading.
  • Financial Tools Comparison: Compared Yahoo Finance and Google Finance for investment analysis.
  • Financial Management Suite Setup: Detailed integration of Google Finance with Google Sheets and Python.
  • Data Fetching System: Created a system to fetch financial data using Python and Google Sheets.
  • Stock Data Downloading: Provided Python scripts using yfinance for downloading stock data.

Achievements

  • Developed a structured approach to investment and trading strategies.
  • Established a framework for algorithmic trading and financial management.

Pending Tasks

  • Further exploration of algorithmic trading software options and backtesting results.
  • Continuous monitoring and adjustment of the investment portfolio based on market trends.