<story><title>Real money, invested with algorithms</title><url>http://blog.quantopian.com/real-money/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gbasin</author><text>Some other commenters have hinted at this but... I feel sad whenever people build this kind of stuff. It&amp;#x27;s probably a very well built product (or will be) and is better than the alternatives out there, but the unfortunate fact is that anything that enables and encourages active trading in modern financial markets is setting 99% of their customers up for failure. And the 1% that are actually on to something will quickly move off the platform onto their own, or will end up losing whatever they make when their strategy loses whatever alpha it has and they can&amp;#x27;t admit it (I&amp;#x27;ve seen this happen, but never the former, actually).&lt;p&gt;Trading is hard. I run a proprietary trading firm with modern technology infrastructure and we have a lot of trading experience. You really have very little chance of success unless you&amp;#x27;re doing this full time, and even then it will take years before you have enough experience to build a sustainable income.</text></comment>
<story><title>Real money, invested with algorithms</title><url>http://blog.quantopian.com/real-money/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ForHackernews</author><text>Sweet. This is perfect for those of us who still have some money we didn&amp;#x27;t put into MtGox left to lose!</text></comment>