strongvigilance

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by strongvigilance 5y ago
What kind of depreciation do you get on crypto mining hardware though? Will that setup still be profitable in x months, when better performing hardware exists?
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by strongvigilance 7y ago
Interesting - I have looked into the API, though TT tech support believe they can fix the issues I'm seeing. Any reason for choosing F#/WPF over C#/Winforms? And agree 100% on Xtrader - very strange business decision to disco
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by strongvigilance 7y ago
Interesting - so do you think it would be possible to have a JS/HTML5 app refresh at 60FPS?
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by strongvigilance 7y ago
Not really sure, as it's not my field, but the graphics requirements are not about "drawing" - more about rapidly updating multiple grids of numbers without any lag.
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Ask HN: UI Design for Financial Trading
10 points by strongvigilance 7y ago|11 comments
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US military can learn from game marketing, says ex-Call of Duty director(gamesindustry.biz)
1 points by strongvigilance 12y ago|0 comments
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by strongvigilance 12y ago
There have always been middlemen, as, especially with less liquid instruments, there won't necessarily be equal supply and demand from "natural" buyers and sellers. As markets have gone from floor trading, to point+click on c
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Mathematics, meritocracy & inequality(lartsocial.org)
2 points by strongvigilance 13y ago|0 comments
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Seems like quite a strong possibility, given his background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt#Dismissal
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
I don't think the actual order type was a secret, just that some HFT firms figured out a way to use it which gave them an advantage over other HFT firms. The firms who didn't understand it lost out.
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Like many vocal HFT critics, he was trying to play the same game, and was outcompeted.
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‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter(blogs.marketwatch.com)
2 points by strongvigilance 13y ago|3 comments
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
I believe the profits have dropped a lot recently, as competition has driven down margins for everyone involved. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/how-the-robo...
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Generally it's possible to colocate servers in the same datacentre as the exchange servers. This isn't really a competitive advantage though, as anyone who needs latency that low will be doing the same, and the costs will be relat
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Competition is already high, and colocating is not that expensive for anyone with the ability to compete. A lot of the loudest criticism of HFT is that it's too competitive - a lot of people who used to make a comfortable living from t
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Why have a limit on how close people can be to the exchange? For one thing, everyone would just colo at exactly the minimum distance, achieving nothing. For another, ability to colo is not really an issue. If you wanted to create an HFT sta
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
As far as I'm aware, the exact time of release of the FOMC statement can vary by a few seconds. Nanex seem to have assumed that the release comes from Washington, but I would guess that one of the agencies that receives the embargoed d
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Yes - most journalists/analysts prefer to be wrong together than wrong alone, so there is usually a lot of groupthink. The previous fed minutes suggested that most members wanted to wait to taper, unless data improved, and data didn&#x
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Indeed - it's worth noting that on the non-farm payroll figure (which is closely watched by markets) this month, most markets jumped in the wrong direction a split second early, before violently reversing.
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Indeed. In fact, when economists talk about full employment, they don't even mean 100% - it's thought that at least some unemployment is needed to control inflation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employmen
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Perhaps this is partly due to the multitude of parties, which in turn is due to the nature of the electoral system? In a two party system, a lot of people feel like they are voting for the lesser of two evils, so negative campaigning is pre
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Indeed - the current proposal suggests that the persecution was only wrong because he was a war hero, and not because of the injustice of it. I'd imagine there must be some victims who are still alive today.
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
London has a big financial sector, so a lot of the big pay packets probably come from there - hedge funds, banks, HFT etc. See here: http://jobs.efinancialcareers.co.uk/Information_Technology.h...
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
To be fair, this kind of performance would probably be seen over any sample of the brokerage house clients. Even professional mutual fund managers systematically underperform the market.
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
To an extent - I'm a trader first, programmer second - learnt the latter to help with the former.
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
I'd second the Harris book - very good intro to trading and markets.
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
A couple of years old, but this is (IMO) a much better list: http://quantivity.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/how-to-learn-algo... The 30+ generic C++ books in the posted list says a lot, and many of the more finance-oriented books on the list
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Like the numerous 9/11 conspiracies, it fails the Occam's Razor test. Even if there was a conspiracy, how many people would have to be in on it, and how would you keep it secret? And if there were such nefarious people in government/industr
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
Structuring a trade to reduce downside risk while profiting from unanticipated random events is easy - just buy options. The problem is that everyone else knows this, so they're priced accordingly.
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by strongvigilance 13y ago
It's slightly sad when science journalism relies on "an expert says", without feeling the need to reference any data.

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