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Does anyone remember starfighter.io/stockfighter.io that Kalzumeus put up years ago? It was based around coding market making strategies based on the structures

by anm89 5y ago

Does anyone remember starfighter.io/stockfighter.io that Kalzumeus put up years ago? It was based around coding market making strategies based on the structures presented in this article. I still kick myself for not completing that when it was up. I'm always hoping that that will make it's way back up one day

clusterhacks 5y ago
I sure do - I finished all the stockfighter levels and loved the experience. There were some people who reverse-engineered stockfighter and had at least some of the code on github. You might try looking around for it. I sometimes look around for companies that use hiring challenges like that now but haven't had much luck. I think fly.io is using some type of challenge in their hiring process which makes sense given tptacek, patio11, and elptacek were the stockfighter cofounders.
- tptacek 5y ago
  We do exclusively use work-sample hiring at Fly.io right now, though it looks a lot different from Starfighter (Microcorruption, Starfighter's predecessor, also wasn't the work sample we used at Matasano; both Starfighter and Microcorruption were about outreach). It'd be neat to come up with something Starfighter-y/Microcorruption-y that meshed with what we're doing at Fly.io. (I don't want to get too far off on a tangent here, though, because I also nerd out about market structure stuff and that's what the thread is about.)
- distrill 5y ago
  I swear every 2 years tptacek has a new company with some obscure name. I guess fly isn't that obscure, maybe he's turning over a new leaf.
  - tptacek 5y ago
    I didn't start Fly.io! That's why it has a normal name.
    - idlewords 5y ago
      You didn't start the Fly.io It was always burning, since the world's been turning
Bootvis 5y ago
I think the ending was somewhat underwhelming but I sure had fun tinkering with C++. I know of a competition putting where students against each other. Competing with others seems more fun.
WA 5y ago
Why was stockfighter never open sourced? I played it, never finished it unfortunately.
- tptacek 5y ago
  We were all super busy after we moved on from the business.
catern 5y ago
I loved Stockfighter. I played through it as preparation for starting my first job out of college, at an HFT. No comment on whether it was good preparation. :)
- anm89 5y ago
  My assumption would be from a little perspective of it being good HFT job training that it probably isn't but that it's still probably a very valuable learning experience just in terms of getting your head in that domain.
simonebrunozzi 5y ago
I do, I do. The idea was really intriguing. Unfortunately the company didn't last long.
moneywoes 5y ago
Have a link?

by anm89 5y ago

clusterhacks 5y ago

I sure do - I finished all the stockfighter levels and loved the experience. There were some people who reverse-engineered stockfighter and had at least some of the code on github. You might try looking around for it. I sometimes look around for companies that use hiring challenges like that now but haven't had much luck. I think fly.io is using some type of challenge in their hiring process which makes sense given tptacek, patio11, and elptacek were the stockfighter cofounders.

tptacek 5y ago
We do exclusively use work-sample hiring at Fly.io right now, though it looks a lot different from Starfighter (Microcorruption, Starfighter's predecessor, also wasn't the work sample we used at Matasano; both Starfighter and Microcorruption were about outreach). It'd be neat to come up with something Starfighter-y/Microcorruption-y that meshed with what we're doing at Fly.io. (I don't want to get too far off on a tangent here, though, because I also nerd out about market structure stuff and that's what the thread is about.)
distrill 5y ago
I swear every 2 years tptacek has a new company with some obscure name. I guess fly isn't that obscure, maybe he's turning over a new leaf.
- tptacek 5y ago
  I didn't start Fly.io! That's why it has a normal name.
  - idlewords 5y ago
    You didn't start the Fly.io It was always burning, since the world's been turning

Bootvis 5y ago

I think the ending was somewhat underwhelming but I sure had fun tinkering with C++. I know of a competition putting where students against each other. Competing with others seems more fun.

WA 5y ago

Why was stockfighter never open sourced? I played it, never finished it unfortunately.

tptacek 5y ago
We were all super busy after we moved on from the business.

catern 5y ago

I loved Stockfighter. I played through it as preparation for starting my first job out of college, at an HFT. No comment on whether it was good preparation. :)

anm89 5y ago
My assumption would be from a little perspective of it being good HFT job training that it probably isn't but that it's still probably a very valuable learning experience just in terms of getting your head in that domain.

simonebrunozzi 5y ago

I do, I do. The idea was really intriguing. Unfortunately the company didn't last long.

moneywoes 5y ago

Have a link?