It's been a while. In case you forgot, I'm Brian Christopher, CFA. I build and deploy live algorithmic trading systems for clients.
You've probably got an AI subscription by now. Maybe a strategy idea. Generating code isn't the hard part anymore.
Knowing whether that code is safe to run with real money is. Is the backtest curve-fit? Will it blow up on an edge case you never tested? If it stops working at 2am, how do you even find out?
AI doesn't know. Most courses don't teach it.
I spent the last year building and running these systems in production. I'm turning everything I had to learn the hard way into a course called Forge. Research infrastructure, live broker execution, cloud deployment on infrastructure you own.
But the right version depends on what you actually need.
Path 1: I want to learn.
Live sessions. Architecture, validation, deployment. Walked through, not just handed over. You understand what you're building.
Path 2: I want to ship.
You already know what you're building. You need the production-tested skeleton: repo structure, test suite, deploy configs. Plug in and go.
Takes 30 seconds. Decides what I build first.
- Brian Christopher, CFA
BlackArbs LLC