5 years ago, I was a newbie myself.
I had to find out the secrets behind trading like all of you searching for gold here.
I lost some money. ($15.000!) Accidentally I even lost $3000 in one day!
My entire savings were gone… I couldn’t stand it.
I programmed and programmed… years after years…
After working for 3 years, I finally started to work together with some other programmers. The next year we launched the first strategy @ zulutrade. Unfortunately, after a couple of months, the account of $25.000 suddenly… (we all know what happened then…)
The previous year I was able to find some very effective improvements. It’s difficult to trade efficient in rapidly changing markets with only preset algorithm codes. Preset strategies have to be able to adapt themselves. Strategies have to be constructed by dividing the strategy in different layers that will be activated during a certain type of market.
This time I wanted to do everything by the book. Building a website, doing backtests, the codes had to be just perfect. (no doubts about the codes) Eventually backtests finally displayed the desired level of perfectionism. Recently we launched PipShip Ext Strategy. 
We are very curious about the opinions all of you have about the strategy we made.