Ahhh, that makes sense. Thx.

Exactly. That's why it's in Excel. You'll need to use the filters to narrow down and screen out the stocks in your category.

I said in my post that I avoid small-cap stocks. I 'm a conservative, dividend-growth investor, so I favor larger cap stocks.

$1200? Not much of a friend then. I'll say this, my automated trading activity will flag my account as a "Pattern Day Trader" due to the multiple back and forth buying and selling, which means that if I don't have a minimum $25k in the account then the brokerage firm will be forced (by FINRA) to liquidate my account.

I'll answer it this way. API trading for the most part frees you from having to constantly look at the monitor and eliminates emotional trading decisions. You still have to monitor the win rate to make sure your algorithm is net positive. You also need to backtest at least once a month to see if your strategy is still the most profitable option or if there is a more profitable alternative. Again, it's about automating what has worked well for you.

My most profitable algorithmic trading strategy has been netting me consistently between $1200-$1500 per month and I've been slowly scaling it up.

Many of the firms now require manual authentication with 2FA, so selenium is not going to work. I've done a substantial amount of web-scraping with selenium for my work, so I'm familiar with what you're suggesting. In the past, I tried using selenium to automate retrieving the refreshed code from eTrade , but they had something that was blocking my script from reading the code that was generated, so I gave up on it.

Be nice now :) I would pay $99 for premium quotes if that was necessary to execute my strategy cleanly. But as I stated, the free option works fine with my strategies, so I'm holding off on paying for something I don't need at the moment.

That's the wrong question to ask. They way I look at it, API trading facilitates programmatic trading which facilitates algorithmic trading which facilitates automating a strategy that has manually worked for you profitably in the past.

PFOF - Payment for Order Flow.