HockeyPlayer

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by HockeyPlayer 13y ago
For your questions, it doesn't matter if it is a partnership, LLC or C-corp. I don't know if PG has control. You can't buy YC shares.
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The poor don't work because they are economically rational(chrisstucchio.com)
22 points by HockeyPlayer 13y ago|56 comments
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Experienced traders discuss Bitcoin(nuclearphynance.com)
1 points by HockeyPlayer 13y ago|0 comments
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by HockeyPlayer 13y ago
Thoughts? I've been reading about standing desks, not sure I want to go to that much effort.
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by HockeyPlayer 13y ago
A majority of our profits come from arbitrage. We don't do any quote stuffing or flickering. It is unethical and illegal.
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by HockeyPlayer 13y ago
> Are there hft funds available to general public for investing? No, one of the characteristics of HFT is that the returns are high and the capacity is low.
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by HockeyPlayer 13y ago
I was surprised to see an investor relations page. Most prop groups aren't actively looking for more money. And they talk about clients, which is unusual. Can you explain?
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by HockeyPlayer 13y ago
Chris Stucchio addresses this at http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html He links to the HN comments as well.
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by HockeyPlayer 13y ago
Writing well is one of the only ways to scale your impact beyond face-to-face, but you don't have to be writing about literature. Pomona taught me to write, even though I was a computer science major.
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by HockeyPlayer 13y ago
While intraday trading as a whole is zero-sum, the HFTs are taking profits from other traders, not from each other. HFTs as a group are profitable.
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
Lots of new people in this space lately: AngelList via SecondMarket, FundersClub, MicroVentures. I have an investment in a seed fund run by a prominent angel, so I have some insight into recent valuations. I get the feeling that these onli
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
How do you get your bitcoins?
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Using Silk Road(gwern.net)
368 points by HockeyPlayer 14y ago|165 comments
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
"Delivering innovation at scale" is exactly what let McDonald's grow like few companies before or since.
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Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early(nanex.net)
526 points by HockeyPlayer 14y ago|282 comments
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
I described 3% as conservative. Over most long periods 4% and even 5% would be fine, but you only have one life and you don't want to fall into an unfortunate period.
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
You can conservatively spend 3% of a lump sum each year and the earnings will keep up with inflation. So if you had $1m in savings, you could spend $30k/year in today's dollars forever (and still have $1m at the end). If you want to spend
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
CoinBase doesn't mention it on their site, but in addition to the 1%, you are also paying the bid/offer spread. So if a bitcoin is worth 13.5 US dollars, you will pay 13.6 at CoinBase and only get 13.4 when you change back into dollars. Bi
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BitMe - another Bitcoin exchange(bitme.com)
2 points by HockeyPlayer 14y ago|0 comments
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
Several interesting points here: + there are different types of high-frequency traders, some of which are more aggressive in initiating trades and some of which are passive, simply taking the other side of existing offers in the market. + t
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High-Speed Traders Profit at Expense of Ordinary Investors, a Study Says(nytimes.com)
2 points by HockeyPlayer 14y ago|1 comments
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
The comments in that thread are interesting only for their lack of understanding of HFT.
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Iranian jets fire on U.S. drone(security.blogs.cnn.com)
1 points by HockeyPlayer 14y ago|0 comments
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
Fair enough. Most people considering trying this probably have a few ideas for indicators. But for anyone coming to HFT from a coding background instead of a trading background, an explanation of one of your indicators would have been fasc
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
I run an HFT group, and what he describes isn't what we'd call "retail". He was doing a number of things that professional shops do, including making markets to avoid paying the spread and paying attention to queue position to predict exec
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
I run a 12 person HFT group in Denver. This is an excellent description of how an individual can bootstrap themselves into success. Great story, and nicely presented. The one interesting point that he glossed over is what his indicators w
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
Sure, his program could easily have been done in almost any language. He wasn't competing on speed, which might have excluded languages like Python.
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
http://www.codereviewers.com/
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by HockeyPlayer 14y ago
If you know several languages well, the project's characteristics will usually make the language choice obvious. I'd recommend against learning a new language for a new project.
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Ask HN: Anyone going to TechStar's Demo Day in Boulder tomorrow?
2 points by HockeyPlayer 14y ago|0 comments

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