u/EliteSingh

For the past month I’ve been learning and building a backtesting algo, and I’m realizing pretty quickly how important data quality is. Trying to find a cheap but decent futures data source (ES/NQ) that doesn’t need a ton of cleaning/filtering and has solid continuous contracts.

Don’t need anything perfect yet, just something usable with a few years of history. I’ll probably upgrade later, but for now just want something affordable to iterate with.

I’ve looked at NinjaTrader data, but not sure if it’s the best option.

What are you guys using early on before upgrading to databento?

Is anyone else struggling with how the exams are written in ML4T?

I swear it’s not even the concepts at this point. I’ll study, understand everything, feel pretty solid and then I open the exam and the wording just throws me off. The questions feel super dense and overly complicated, like you have to decode what it’s asking before you can even start thinking about the answer.

It honestly feels like it’s testing how well you can interpret confusing English under pressure rather than how well you actually understand the material.

ML4T is my very first OMSCS class, so I’m just wondering are other classes like this too, or is this kind of an outlier?

Even when I know the answer, I still end up second guessing myself because of how the question is phrased.