Is it possible to combine programming with trading or is it better to choose one?

Question

Career in IT

The essence of the question is as follows: In any business there are pluses and minuses, you need an opinion on the side in order to still decide. Is it worth a fork or go into programming or be a trader .. Is it possible to combine both, or is it better to choose one area.
If you take why I chose these two directions, THEN, I like programming and liked it for a long time, all the romance of writing code, solving problems, and so on, BUT if we take the question of money, then I still tend to trade more and then there is a failure in my head , and how to do better? That's exactly why I came here.

Answer 1

Go into programming. Trading is a hobby.

Answer 2

Trading is a road to nowhere.
Technical analysis works only in half of the cases and only for a certain type of fin. tools.
In trading, 80% of players are organizations from Wall Street in which guys sit with diplomas from leading American universities and with advanced degrees in mathematics and economics. Therefore, you will automatically fall into the 20% of losers. The
vast majority of traders on the long horizon do not earn anything, or find themselves in a serious minus
. There is also an ethical point - by trading you do not bring anything useful to the world, you do not create any value. You're just trying to beat other people and embezzle their money.

Answer 3

Of course you can combine. And even necessary. To be a successful trader, you need to be a programmer, because now almost no one is trading seriously by hand, and any trading bots and scripts that you can find or buy are nothing if you cannot understand and modify them for yourself.

Answer 4

If trading brings more - then there
if programming from scratch - then also in trading)) and this can be used as a hobby

Answer 5

Programming + Analysis + Trading = Direct way to QFA . But this is about serious work, and not about automating simple trading strategies on a local machine.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, it most likely won't work. I now assume that you do not know deeply either one or the other (for example, the phrase "all the romance of writing code" betrays you as a person who has not yet worked as a programmer in real work, I do not want to offend you)). And once you start diving into each of the areas, you will realize that there are simply limitless areas for STUDY and PRACTICE. I myself once thought about it, even before the crisis of 2008, and decided for myself that it was unrealistic.