You don't need trading bots for long term investing or even infrequent trading. In LT investing, portfolio tracking and asset allocation/reallocation are the primary tasks. Robo-advisors were very popular almost a decade ago. Most brokerages have integrated such features now. Also, checkout M1 Finance.
I started investing first with the help of spreadsheet then shell scripting and now Jupyter Notebooks and Python. Beyond LT investing portfolio tracking, majority of time I spend on short to mid-term strategy development, back-testing and implementation; portfolio hedging and leverage; and options trading.
Only manual aspect is actual order placement, which takes only few minutes at best.
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You don't need trading bots for long term investing or even infrequent trading. In LT investing, portfolio tracking and asset allocation/reallocation are the primary tasks. Robo-advisors were very popular almost a decade ago. Most brokerages have integrated such features now. Also, checkout M1 Finance.
I started investing first with the help of spreadsheet then shell scripting and now Jupyter Notebooks and Python. Beyond LT investing portfolio tracking, majority of time I spend on short to mid-term strategy development, back-testing and implementation; portfolio hedging and leverage; and options trading.
Only manual aspect is actual order placement, which takes only few minutes at best.