This story reprinted without permission from portfolio.com This article expresses part of what I have been thinking for some time, that Wall Street is feeding the world bs and most people are taking a big bite. -Mike The Evolution of an Investor by Michael Lewis December 2007 Issue Blaine Lourd got rich picking stocks. But […]
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I love his dead pan delivery… A favorite of Steven Wright’s is, “I went out today and bought some powdered water, but I couldn’t figure out what to add.” 1 – I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. 2 – Borrow money from pessimists — they don’t expect it back. 3 – Half the people […]
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All of this was done summer/fall of ’06 Strategy Runner. Looks interesting. Years of tick data for testing. Full platform capable. Price Paper trader: 2 week trial, $35-$65/month Real: “call for price” Strategy Tuner Dev: $3k, $900/yr Strategy Tuner Standard: $300 one time Data: 3 contracts included. $50/yr per contract updates Lite: auto exits only, […]
Continue readingBackTest, how it works, design, architecture, data flow, brain dump, how I got here…
How I got here; Sometime in early ’06 some friend’s talk about trading futures finally got to me ;^) Sometime in mid ’06 I realized what I wanted to do was automated backtesting of algorithmic trading strategies.
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Network speeds Theoretical limits Speed Desc Bits/sec Bytes/sec 56Kbps modem 56,600 7,200 1.5Mbps T1 (symm) 1,500,000 187,500 4Mbps cable (asymm) 4,000,000 500,000 10Mbps ethernet 10,000,000 1,250,000 11Mbps 802.11b 11,000,000 1,375,000 54Mbps 802.11g 54,000,000 6,750,000 300Mbps 80211.n 300,000,000 37.5MB/s 100Mbps Fast ethernet 100,000,000 12,500,000 1000Mbps Gigabit eth 1,000,000,000 125,000,000 Observed Type Bytes/sec 802.11g (GC/yaupon(mkm) to blazer) […]
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I’m not really a pi fanatic or anything. Shortly after PCs became powerful enough I did some experimenting with calculating pi out to many places. I printed this on paper in the late 80s on continuous form feed paper on a dot matrix printer. As I remember it took several days to print. I still […]
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Download: Fractal.exe Algorithm: Start with the center pixel painted white. 1) Choose a random point on the edge of the display area. 2) Move one space in a random direction (up/down/left/right). 3) If the new location is adjacent to a white pixel then paint the new location white and go to step 1. 4) Go […]
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I received these cool pics in an email. I thought they were interesting and was curious about some of the stars I’d never heard of. This lead to a round of Googling…
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