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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Some of the more popular pundits are visible enough that independent researchers compile comparative reports on them versus the market in general. Their are many on the (annoyingly loud) lightning rod that is Jim Cramer (e.g. http://www.sc
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
You almost have to nurture a case of depersonalization disorder. If you know any successful traders, you probably know what I am talking about. They don't seem to experience or interpret things like everyone else. To be playfully ironic, I'
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Profitable, yes. Consistently, depends on your view of consistency. My goal has always been and continues to be developing profitable algorithms. I have a few that are interesting, but none profitable enough to be noteworthy. (Although one
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
More importantly for most of the members of HN, is this worth my time at all? If markets are inherently interesting to you and you want to spend (a lot of) time studying them, then great: go for it. If you are looking to slowly invest over
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
As someone who has spent the past eight years studying markets and trading, I can say that these are not bad heuristics. Nonetheless, I wouldn't recommend them to a new trader. As many traders are fond of saying, you must pay your tuition i
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Yes, especially considering her profession. The women I know who are into sci-fi do not look like that.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Ditto on FUSE. I use fusecompress to store a lot of CSV data on my SSD. It was a solution borne of necessity -- I skimped on capacity when buying the SSD -- but it worked very well. http://code.google.com/p/fusecompress/
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
The proportions of this sample fit my expectations given the "referal" traffic show by analytics when I have blog posts.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Given Chrome's tab and menu positions, Chrome feels great with XMonad. (Posted via Chrome x86_64 :))
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Ridley's Origins of Virtue got me into evolutionary computation, albeit indirectly, in 9th grade. I'm starting a masters (although probably PH.D.) program this fall in computational social sciences. Thanks, Matt.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Github has some good resources. http://help.github.com/ If you want to understand how git works -- and therefore know what it can do -- see: http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
App Engine for Business allows you to use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) on your own domain for all your App Engine applications, not just on the x.appspot.com domain. FINALLY!
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Zed Shaw: You Shall Know The 20% By Their Lack Of Works(oppugn.us)
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FakeSMS: Self-notification service by HTTP-GET(fakesms.pathdependent.com)
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I live in DC. I briefly worked for a think tank whereby I was exposed to a lot of politicians. In general, those that rise are smart (shocker). They manipulate as a means to an end, thinking themselves justified. Unfortunately, everyone is
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
People experiment with things like that often. Search JStor for market structure or market mircostructure (especially O'Hare). Even in conventional markets there are periods of auctioning and alternative pricing structures. I studied it a w
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Upgrades are the sticking point when it comes to frameworks Yes. They even cause the language to get sticky! I think Guido's moratorium was smart -- things need to be tightened. While it's somewhat trivial, having many different Python
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Ah okay. Then yes, I agree with you in in that case. Going from an expected single day 10% return to not a single day 10% return is unpleasant.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
If it was an error, this is the wrong way to think about things. People who had short positions with GTC limits deep into the range traveled also could have made a bundle. The limit orders would have executed damn fast. If this was an error
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
It's one of the benefits to stock market clearing houses with T+3 settlement.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
To some degree, I agree with you. The stimulus was a bluff that was meant to inflate confidence and bring back spending. The market is a strong signal that, if in panic mode, may arrest gains to consumer confidence. I don't want a panic bec
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I don't see how the order could even be placed. An emini contract has a 50x multiplier for SPY. That's about 50,000 per contract; that's a lot of contracts. I don't think such an order could be entered without error at Citi's desk and it wo
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Yea, it's appearing more and more like a glitch, human, structural, or otherwise. However, the sellers were real -- and increasing. I think there is a danger that people will see it as only a glitch and not the beginnings of trouble. The gl
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
This is a genuine panic -- probably the start of pretty dramatic decline. Sovereign debt is going to be the new contagion. If the contagion spreads, the gains to consumption over the past year could be demolished. These gains were bought at
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I have to work really very hard to overcome this tendency and I'm pretty sure that it has cost me over the years to find little or no interest in doing the 'grunt' work of running a business. This is my biggest problem. I am interested bu
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I have to confess some strong jealously. Maybe I have romanticized sailing too much, but if I had the money I believe I would live on a boat and code.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Let me know how it works out. I did it initially for similar reasons. A surgery I had years ago leads disk degeneration. Mine is not bad, but my back did hurt at the end of the day sometimes. Now it does not.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
What graphics card are you using to drive this?
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It's actually amazingly comfortable. Moreover, balancing requires you to sit erect, helping fight the second scourge of computer dorks -- bad posture. (The first being Carpal tunnel.)
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Mine is not impressive. http://pathdependent.com/garbage/workspaces/my_workspace.jpg

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