Thanks @josevas217! You are right about your comment on limiting development of financial tools due to finance professionals not being programmers. Infact that is the main reason why one of the oldest professions - finance - came late into the computational game. However, in recent years, what changed was computational professionals - engineers, physicists, computer scientists etc. started becoming interested in finance. This trend gave rise to new professions and University degrees such as financial engineers.

Actually, my blog is for those who have little or no experience in programming, so you are well at home here. My hope is that by the time I am done with the series, it will become easier to build or use the computational tools we develop to confidently trade the markets yourself.