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If it is not too personal, why did you stop? Also, do you prefer comments here or on your blog? To answer your last question in the blog: yes please keep goin

by ad 15y ago

If it is not too personal, why did you stop? Also, do you prefer comments here or on your blog? To answer your last question in the blog: yes please keep going!

veyron 15y ago
Oh no the fund is still running. After building a ton of python and C programs to automate basic tasks, thanks to the magic of cron, I stopped doing a lot of the day-to-day work. And now I have some time on my hands :) There was another discussion in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828538 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828538 and I got the impression that people were interested in HFT, if not necessarily supporting it. Furthermore, I find that many people in the industry are surprisingly tight-lipped over the most mundane things (god forbid someone finds out about struct.unpack or RDTSC). My motives are fairly straightforward: 1) discuss some of my experiences for those who are interested in seeing how to bootstrap a trading operation; 2) convince people that finance startups exist and have interesting challenges; and 3) excite some people to the extent that they would like to work with me. I'm honestly not excited by most of the traditional candidates from finance recruiters, mostly because the market is flooded with excel-happy windonauts that couldn't even do basic excel tasks (like calculating a pnl given a CSV -- I would use awk, but that's not a traditional windows thing) and "linux" developers who don't know how to use grep or perl/python. Also, the last time some tried a retrospective [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2162346 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2162346], I got the impression that he was looking for a job. And given that the blog was taken down, I'm guessing he found one :P As far as comments are concerned, at least I get an email when a comment is made at the blog. I dont get an email here, and see an item like this if I happen to stumble upon the post.

by ad 15y ago

If it is not too personal, why did you stop? Also, do you prefer comments here or on your blog? To answer your last question in the blog: yes please keep going!

veyron 15y ago

Oh no the fund is still running. After building a ton of python and C programs to automate basic tasks, thanks to the magic of cron, I stopped doing a lot of the day-to-day work. And now I have some time on my hands :) There was another discussion in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828538 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828538 and I got the impression that people were interested in HFT, if not necessarily supporting it. Furthermore, I find that many people in the industry are surprisingly tight-lipped over the most mundane things (god forbid someone finds out about struct.unpack or RDTSC). My motives are fairly straightforward: 1) discuss some of my experiences for those who are interested in seeing how to bootstrap a trading operation; 2) convince people that finance startups exist and have interesting challenges; and 3) excite some people to the extent that they would like to work with me. I'm honestly not excited by most of the traditional candidates from finance recruiters, mostly because the market is flooded with excel-happy windonauts that couldn't even do basic excel tasks (like calculating a pnl given a CSV -- I would use awk, but that's not a traditional windows thing) and "linux" developers who don't know how to use grep or perl/python. Also, the last time some tried a retrospective [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2162346 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2162346], I got the impression that he was looking for a job. And given that the blog was taken down, I'm guessing he found one :P As far as comments are concerned, at least I get an email when a comment is made at the blog. I dont get an email here, and see an item like this if I happen to stumble upon the post.