irldexter

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by irldexter 5mo ago
Hiya, https://jumpstartsignal.com/how-it-works/ outlines the methodology + more additional interesting info in https://jumpstartsignal.com/changelog/ and https://jumpstartsignal.com&#x2
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by irldexter 5mo ago
Added a changelog as per my previous comment/response https://jumpstartsignal.com/changelog/ Thanks for the feedback, makes sense!
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by irldexter 5mo ago
Overfitting on historical data is a real risk and defo a concern (there's been lots of learnings lately). The backtest wasn't naive. Fundamentals used filing dates not period-end dates to avoid look-ahead + scoring was validated o
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by irldexter 5mo ago
So, you kind of hit the nail on the head with "if" and "purpose". So, this is not an ESG fund (per your link) and more about baked-in filtering/excluding certain parts of the investable universe (with additional cri
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by irldexter 5mo ago
Well, it's early, so there's only been 2 actionable signals so far; 1 unique ticker SPOTLIGHT and 1 OPPORTUNITY (MONITOR is just a watchlist flag i.e. continue to MONITOR). Am putting in 1K per SPOT/OPP so far. I also maintai
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by irldexter 5mo ago
Hmmm, only did one ascii emoji in a different response. An old habit from the early days. Point noted.
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by irldexter 5mo ago
Nope.
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by irldexter 5mo ago
No hedge fund background, fair cop. I'm a software developer who got frustrated with discretionary noise and built something rules-based. On the bull run, alpha here is measured against SPY, which ran the same period. The claim is rela
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by irldexter 5mo ago
That's the pipeline being honest :) no forced picks on a slow day.
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by irldexter 5mo ago
On ESG/SRI: fair, excluding sectors comes at a cost, and we make that trade-off knowingly. On stock picking: the system is rules-based and mechanical, not discretionary. The "folly" argument applies most strongly to human jud
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by irldexter 5mo ago
Hi, Donal from JSS here. We're on R27, revision 27 of the signal weights and features. Each revision gets snapshotted as a "golden" version in config, run through a full backtest, and the results pages pull dynamically from t
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Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology(jumpstartsignal.com)
30 points by irldexter 5mo ago|25 comments
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by irldexter 3y ago
I'm the author and am happy for any feedback + to answer any questions about this deep dive. It was fun to write about and learn more as I continue my 802.11 journey + building tools.
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by irldexter 4y ago
This is great feedback thanks and a very interesting point. Most laptops these days are constantly chatting towards the Internet, just have a look at wireshark! But, the local LAN tests are preceded by IPv4 and IPv6 Internet reachability te
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by irldexter 8y ago
Surprised no one has linked to this yet https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Microsoft&tr... where you can view the salary grades of the FAANG's compared to other public/private inc stock, as report
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by irldexter 18y ago
Zen, ego, statecraft, belief systems and barriers of entry. Perhaps read 'The Relation of Science and Religion', Richard P. Feynman. I have chewed this cud before: http://tr.im/f95s