The 2025 Retail Trader's Playbook: From Zero to Automated Trading Hero (Without Losing Your Shirt)
Remember when algorithmic trading was just for the Goldman Sachs crowd? Yeah, me neither—that was like, what, 2019? Fast forward to 2025 and my neighbor's kid is running a crypto bot from his dorm room. Wild times.
The thing is—and this is where most guides get it twisted—having access to the tools doesn't mean you know how to use them. It's like giving someone a Ferrari when they can barely drive stick. The global market hit $21 billion last year, sure, but here's what's not making headlines: about 80% of retail algo traders are hemorrhaging money. The T+1 settlement thing? Yeah, that's real, but it's not the magic bullet everyone's hyping it up to be.



