Review of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: A Metaphor for Algorithmic Trading?

Written by Michael Bigger. Follow me on Twitter.

I just finished reading William Kamkwamba's The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Amazon e-book Affiliate Link). The book tells William's inspiring story of growing up in rural Malawi. Young William, with odds strongly stacked against him, decided to build a windmill to improve his family's standard of living.

We can use the way William went about building his contraption as a metaphor for how to go about building your trading algorithm from scratch. Everyone interested in algorithmic trading should read William's story.

The odds of you succeeding in building an algorithm are high. They don't even compare to the odds William faced. I wrote All You Need to Start Algorithmic Trading to help you get there.

"If you want to make it, all you have to do is try," wrote William.

Then...Try. Why not?

Comments

[Esmeralda Luna]

biggercapital.squarespace.com's done it once more! Great post.

[Arthur]

Because these heartless monsters at IB won't give me more than 6 to 1 leverage!!! :-( I got used to 30-40 to 1!

[Michael Bigger]

LOL.