Just an FYI, there is a company that spent 5+ years building a no-code algo trading platform and it's pretty slick: https://optionalpha.com/ Of course, competition is always good for innovation though. It looks like they are integrating with brokers to avoid the KYC issues (however, there is certainly a lot of liability in automatically placing orders though). You will still need to get live market data from somewhere but the compliance for that isn't quite as crazy.