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Becoming really rich with C#
- spitfire 17y agoThis guy is going to lose all his money.
- _pius 17y agoWhy?
- barrkel 17y agoYou can read more about it here: http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/07/real-vampire-squid-on-face-of-humanity.html http://marketprognosticator.blogspot.com/2009/07/real-vampir... (I posted this in reply to Luca's post when I first read it.) The basic idea is that you chase the herd. The problem comes from two areas. If sentiment changes, and there's a big herd, the price can change very quickly, and you might not be fast enough to come away with gains. The other problem is the transaction cost (commission, stamp duty, capital gains tax, etc.) of chasing the momentum, continually trading stocks, eating away at gains.
- known 17y agoI believe 99% of flaws in stock exchanges can be prevented if every trade is subjected to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry#Adverse_Selection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry#Adverse_S...
- nathanwdavis 17y agoThis interesting because I do pretty much the same thing on my website http://ETFtable.com http://ETFtable.com except that is for all ETFs, it is sortable, filterable, and I do all the technical analysis in the browser in Javascript.
- ratsbane 17y agoNicely done. When I first clicked on it I though it was a java applet but then, on looking at the source, I see you're using the Yahoo User Interface library. Where is the source of your ETF data?
- mynameishere 17y agoI spent a few months trying to ferret out incorrectly priced options. The truth is...there are 1000s of hedge funds, not to mention Goldman Sachs, who have mathematicians on staff who will beat you at every turn. Unless you find some as-yet uncounted variable, like the moistness of the ferns in Ghana as they relate to next month's Cocoa crop, forget it. Everything is priced in, and even-odds is the best possible bet.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoWould you be playing against them or would you just ride the wave they create?
- ilyak 17y agoYou can do that in something like python in 2x less lines.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoI can do it in LZW in 10 times fewer bytes than you can do it in Python :) I think comparing statically typed languages to dynamically typed languages takes more than counting. You also have to test and maintain the system. Others have to make sense of the code you write, etc. And now show me your 2x fewer lines of Python code :-)
- ilyak 17y agoI just meant that C# isn't that good and never will be as good for quick scripting. Only if you don't know anything else. But I've changed my mind. For math, he'd better take mathlab-octave.
- stingraycharles 17y agoI just meant that C# isn't that good and never will be as good for quick scripting. Only if you don't know anything else. Often, the best tool for the job is the language you feel most comfortable with.
- camccann 17y agoThe best tool for a job is almost always to select a language you are already comfortable with, which is exactly why it's beneficial to be conversant in multiple languages of different styles. If all you know how to use is a hammer it may be faster on a given task to nail everything together instead of learning other tools. But if you take the time to learn other techniques before you need them, it'll pay off in the long term.