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This is a decent introduction to algorithmic trading for the retail investor. I came into it with a long trading/investing history but little in the way of programming skills. The book gives a good overview and many warnings that one should heed. However, be warned that this author is extremely misleading in his performance. If you read his blog, etc he makes it sound like he makes lots of money trading; using this to push his classes and touting how honest he is. Well, he used to have some systems on stryker and they have all blown up in a spectacular fashion. Bottom line, algo trading is very very difficult (maybe impossible for some/most/all people?). The author is very likely making all his money from selling books and classes, not from trading.