steve8918

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by steve8918 14y ago
I use IQFeed. I pay about $80/month for it to download tick data for futures and stocks.
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by steve8918 14y ago
Backtesting is only 1/2 to 1/3 of the actual task of algorithmic trading. When it comes to actually trading money, if you're not careful and cover every corner case, you really could lose your shirt. I can't believe that 100 lines of code
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by steve8918 14y ago
It's an interesting idea, but most successful retail algo traders probably won't trust their bread-and-butter algos to a cloud-type solution. I've been algorithmically trading for a few years now, and I've invested money into Ninjatrader,
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by steve8918 14y ago
2) If you're talking about chargebacks, it would be YOU that the buyers would be charging back the money from, not the warehouse, since you were the merchant that accepted the payment. And am I right in that you are basically saying that th
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by steve8918 14y ago
This is an extremely important message. Fraud is very easily the thing that can sink many small companies that aren't used to the levels of fraud that you will see on the Internet. And because there are so many ways to defraud a merchant
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by steve8918 14y ago
Please don't try to twist your dumb rant into some sort of free speech issue. The multiple people telling you to shut up isn't because they are trying to squelch discussion on the topic. They are telling you to shut up because you, specifi
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by steve8918 14y ago
No, but the likelihood of the argument having any value is greatly reduced if the person themself doesn't believe in it enough to actually follow the argument. I doubt there is a high likelihood of a meaningful conversation from someone who
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by steve8918 14y ago
> "Hypocrisy" is one of those empty criticisms, like "Unprofessional." If someone says to you, "smoking is bad," it doesn't matter whether he smokes. Maybe, his advice is actually more relevant if he's an older fellow who smoked and now
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by steve8918 14y ago
I agree with mikeash here. If a hellbanned person still wants to remain part of the HN community, it's really not that hard to create a new account. Sure, sometimes they get it wrong, but the vast majority of the case, they get it right.
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by steve8918 14y ago
A very good open source package for handling date-time is ICU ( http://site.icu-project.org/ ) which handles a lot of globalization/internationalization issues.
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by steve8918 14y ago
I completely disagree. I think HN has the highest quality comments of any tech-related forum site. There are consistently tons and tons of great comments from people that are very well-informed. Reddit sometimes have a lot of very great co
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by steve8918 14y ago
A beautifully written article. I only knew Aaron Swartz from the things written about him on the Internet. But it really feels like he had a lot more to contribute to this world, not just technologically, but socially and philisophically a
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by steve8918 14y ago
Whenever I've been in NYC, I've never had a problem getting cabs. Going to Newark airport however cost me something like $110 if I remember correctly, because the cab driver gave me these special "fees" at the end, it felt like highway rob
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Square launches gift cards(news.cnet.com)
26 points by steve8918 14y ago|5 comments
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by steve8918 14y ago
This is pretty scary. Is there a web page I could go to that would identify what information they have about me?
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by steve8918 14y ago
The real culprit that needs to be fired is Steve Ballmer. He was great from the inception of MSFT until maybe the turn of the century, when their business strategy of making and maintaining a Windows monopoly worked beautifully and extreme
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by steve8918 14y ago
This agrees with my entire point, which is that eBay has shifted towards a buyer-oriented site. They offer asymmetric protection for buyers over sellers. Buyers know more about the sellers than sellers know about buyers, making it much m
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by steve8918 14y ago
If you look at Paypal's 10-K, they assume an automatic writeoff 4% of their revenues due to losses from chargebacks.
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by steve8918 14y ago
The only logical conclusion that can be made from eBay's and Paypal's policies is that they no longer want small sellers to use them. They want professional sellers to sell from their site, people who are used to dealing with chargebacks,
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by steve8918 14y ago
I agree. I played around with the Surface RT for over 30 mins at a Microsoft store with the intention of buying it for my parents for Christmas, and I walked away because even I couldn't effectively figure out what the "rules" were for int
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by steve8918 14y ago
This seems like an overreaction. Facebook has a billion users, so trying to do things like encourage voting is a nice sentiment, but practically useless in my opinion. It's better for the company to just do what they want, and if they over
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by steve8918 14y ago
The reason why I hate features like this is because it now puts the onus on customers to detect fraud, not the banks. If my understanding is correct, you have 60 days to reverse any fraudulent checks on your account. If you're someone lik
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by steve8918 14y ago
I don't think writing your own OS is as difficult as people are saying. You're not trying to compete against Windows or Linux, you just want to get something up and running. I'm sure bugs and crashes will be prevalent, but I'm sure it wou
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by steve8918 14y ago
This is unfortunately turning into an example of "you can't fight City Hall". In a city like SF, where the taxi cab service is the worst I've ever experienced (empty taxis just driving past you, or never honoring a commitment to pick you up
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11 Badass Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes (mentalfloss.com)
11 points by steve8918 14y ago|2 comments
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by steve8918 14y ago
Was it through this process? I'm curious because having access to song previews could make for interesting applications. http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/blog/song-p...
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by steve8918 14y ago
How did you get the license to use all those songs?
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by steve8918 14y ago
(Full disclosure: I bought Apple stock and calls in the last 2 days, for a short term trade. Yes, I was &*!@-ing my pants yesterday when it hit ~$505.) The difference with Apple and other momentum stocks is that Apple isn't like Netfli
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by steve8918 14y ago
Interesting, I'm admittedly a few years out of date, the last time I used the book heavily was about 10 years ago... I'll have to pick up this new(er) book.
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by steve8918 14y ago
You sounded like you didn't know what you were doing because your description in your blog post was very poor. You mentioned you were doing an early withdrawal, so obviously based on what you wrote, it seemed like you are lacking proper kn

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