I've spent my entire professional career in the short-term energy trading space. It might sound like a lifetime, which it isn't. But given that the short-term energy space saw it's boom 8 years ago, having spent nearly 7 years here, definetly gives my voice some form of value when I speak.
I started trading manually, but quickly saw that manual trading isn't consistent, and results are very much down to luck. It's not how much you make per day, it's the gradient of what you make over time thats important. Creating a positive gradient over time, is bankable. And consistent. Which is what companies should strive for. I've helped shape algoritms from inception all the way through to how they should be executed.
I'm licensed to trade on EPEX Spot and Nordpool.
I code in Python and Go. My DB of choce is Postgres. I've built trading infrastructure in GCP and Azure.