{"id":2702,"date":"2026-07-24T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:41:48","slug":"learn-algo-trading-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/api\/learn-algo-trading-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Learn Algo Trading From Scratch?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Start with the basics of how markets and order types work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learn to backtest strategies using historical data before going live<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try a no-code platform first to understand strategy logic without writing code<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Move to Shoonya&#8217;s API and Python SDK once you&#8217;re ready to build custom strategies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to understand<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shoonya.com\/what-is-algo-trading\/\"> <\/a>in detail? Check our blog on<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shoonya.com\/what-is-algo-trading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> how algo trading works \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to understand in detail? Check our blog on how algo trading works \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-api","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}