Description
Markets are often portrayed as mysterious, emotional, and unpredictable. Engineers approach problems differently. They seek patterns, build systems, and trust data over opinions.
This book is written for programmers, engineers, analysts, and technical professionals who have little or no background in finance but wish to understand how markets work and how trading ideas can be transformed into systematic processes.
Without overwhelming mathematics or jargon, the book introduces essential concepts of finance, stocks, futures, and options before moving toward risk management, backtesting, Python-based analysis, and automated execution.
The goal is not to predict the market. It is to develop the mindset required to think logically, manage uncertainty, and build robust trading systems.
Written from the perspective of a technology practitioner with decades of IT experience and formal training in finance, this book bridges two worlds that increasingly belong together.
Ashwani Tewari has spent over four decades immersed in shifting digital landscapes—beginning with mainframes and punch cards, through client‑server systems, enterprise databases, distributed architectures, and into today’s world of data science and machine learning. His career spans software development, IT systems engineering, project leadership, and academia, where he served as Head of School of Computer Applications.
With formal qualifications in Mathematics, Business Administration (Finance), and Computer Science, Ashwani’s work has shaped solutions for clients in India and abroad, while his teaching has guided future technologists. Curiosity and hands‑on engagement remain the constants across fields that rarely overlap—whether in coding, research, chess, or art.
Beyond his technology career, Ashwani has been deeply engaged in manual trading, studying market behaviour first-hand, and later designing his own automated trading platform using Python and broker APIs. This dual perspective—trader at the screen and engineer of systems—gives his writing a rare blend of practical market intuition and systematic rigor.
Retirement has not slowed him down. Writing fills his mornings, painting claims his afternoons, and learning continues daily—often sparked by questions from grandchildren. His work today weaves together decades of discovery, teaching, and exploration, offering insights drawn from a lifetime at the intersection of technology, creativity, and financial markets.