What an AI and Python course for trading should teach first, from three courses and a live trading robot. Seven skills in order: reading data fast (79 million ticks: 99 seconds as text, 1.6 as parquet), numpy and numba (5.44 s, 1.32 s, 0.053 s), time and look-ahead bias (31 seconds of the future), trading costs (394 strategies profitable before costs, 185 after), walk-forward testing (0.646 shuffled vs 0.594), the right metric (48% accuracy and still useful), and the bridge from Python to MetaTrader 5. And what to skip at the start: deep learning, huge parameter searches, collecting indicators.

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Chapters:
0: 00 Intro: not neural networks
0: 30 Skill 1: reading data fast
0: 48 Skill 2: numpy and numba
1: 08 Skill 3: time
1: 26 Skill 4: costs
1: 45 Skill 5: testing in time
2: 03 Skill 6: the right metric
2: 23 Skill 7: the live robot
2: 41 Skip: deep learning
2: 58 Skip: parameter searches and indicators
3: 18 The order to learn in
3: 44 One habit

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Topics: AI Python course, Python for trading, machine learning for trading, algorithmic trading course, backtesting in Python, look-ahead bias, walk-forward, trading costs, MetaTrader 5 Python.
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