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> You can't afford retail brokerage costs when you're in a highly crowded and competitive trade.

This is very important. Most brokerage charge around $7 per trade, which makes high-volume trading very very expensive and prohibitive.

Robin Hood is an amazing alternative that charges nada for trades, and once they have an API[1], I think they'd be a great choice for small-time developers looking to do some (low-frequency) algorithmic trading.

[1] https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/210216823-Ro...



If you're serious into retail algotrading, IB (Interactive Brokers) is the best broker you can get.




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