Democratizing Algorithmic Trading: A No-Code Platform Approach to Expert Advisor Development for Non-Programmers

The barrier to entry for algorithmic trading remains high traditional Expert Advisor EA development requires 1-5 years of programming expertise, limiting access to an estimated 80% of retail traders without specialized coding skills. This paper presents a novel approach to democratizing automated trading system development through a no-code platform architecture that enables non-programmers to generate functional, backtestable Expert Advisors in under five minutes. Through empirical validation with 100 participants and backtesting of 50 generated EAs, we demonstrate: (1) no-code synthesis can reduce EA development time by 99.7% while maintaining high success rates (98% code compilability), (2) platform-generated EAs achieve performance metrics statistically comparable to hand-coded implementations (Sharpe p=0.38, Profit Factor p=0.51), and (3) user satisfaction is high (8.7/10), indicating strong product-market fit and genuine demand for accessibility-focused tools.