Is no-code trading as powerful as coding your own strategies?

For the strategies most retail traders actually run — indicator conditions, calendar triggers, profit targets, stops, rotations — yes: a block language expresses them completely, and its constraints are a feature (no infinite loops, no unhandled exceptions, every rule auditable). Code wins beyond that frontier: novel indicators, cross-asset statistical models, order-book microstructure, machine learning. The honest framing is coverage: block languages cover perhaps 95% of retail strategy ideas with dramatically fewer failure modes; code covers 100% with every failure mode ever invented. Start no-code; you'll know precisely when — and whether — you outgrow it, because you'll have a specific rule the blocks can't say.