[jackschultz]

Instead of a stock trading bot, go for daily fantasy sports contests. It can cover pretty much all parts of programming.

Web scraping to gather data, databases for storing it, ML for analyzing, front and backend web dev to show the daily information and adjust.

And instead of having to deal with trading regulations, contests can be really small and easy to enter. There are daily contests for 5 cents an entry, and you can enter 150 optimized lineups from an uploaded csv for $7.50 a day. You can really learn a ton.

[nsomaru]

Which services would you recommend which are developer friendly?

Could you describe your approach? What type of information would you scrape?