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by deathflute 13y ago
Thanks for explaining. These deals are such an opaque market that first time entrepreneurs have no idea what is good and what is bad.
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by deathflute 13y ago
I thought the convertible note is to be converted to equity in series A. If the company did well, it would presumably have a higher valuation, and they would have to give away far less than 25%.
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by deathflute 13y ago
How did you guys arrive at 15% for 150K?
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by deathflute 13y ago
What do you guys think about the terms of the deal? Isn't 15% a lot to give out for just 150k?
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by deathflute 13y ago
I have been part of a team which used kdb heavily and this is not really true. The best part of kdb is that it requires almost no administration and at the end of the day becomes just another programming environment/tool for you to use
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by deathflute 13y ago
Well written article. I think most people who do not have a background in data are unaware of the various options out there and fall for the marketing behind hadoop like tools. I would urge people doing analytics to take a look at kdb+ from
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by deathflute 14y ago
Thanks for an excellent post. I would like to see any one indicator explained in detail as well. I am sure it would be of interest to a lot of people.
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by deathflute 14y ago
I am also confused about how latency arbs work. If you are co-located at one exchange, wouldn't you be further away from other exchanges?
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by deathflute 14y ago
"Then you play the same game on the opposite side to unload your position." Don't you have to play the game at both sides of the book simultaneously? Otherwise, you would risk adverse selection.
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by deathflute 14y ago
It is interesting that you believe that E(compensation in a start up) > E(compensation running a HFT strategy). The popular media is awash with reports of billions of dollars being made by HFT traders. Are they completely off? What abou
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by deathflute 14y ago
To add to (b) Midpoint orders have to be hidden though because lit markets cannot allow displayable sub-penny orders.
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by deathflute 14y ago
Thanks, this is a very clear article on the most important ingredients of HFT. I am curious to hear the apology but I am not sure there is anything to apologize for. The market marker is taking on substantial risk of adverse selection and i
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by deathflute 15y ago
Hi, I might have some interesting projects for you. Can you email me at hn At machine Dot imap Dot cc? I couldn't find an email address in your profile.
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by deathflute 15y ago
As they say there is more than one way to mouth a cliche.
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by deathflute 15y ago
I have always been skeptical about such services. It is like collecting pennies in front of a steamroller. Sooner or later, a tail event like this is bound to happen. A distribution of hosting experiences has to be fat-tailed. It is okay to
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by deathflute 15y ago
Most of what you wrote made some sense until I read the bit about linked-in being indispensable ;)
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by deathflute 16y ago
Arthur's languages are awesome, no doubt about it. But the fact remains that they are proprietary and prohibitively so. As much as you romanticize k/q, I bet you can't even afford to run it on your home computer, let alone do any real work
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by deathflute 16y ago
Yep. Money is not lost, it just belongs to someone else ;)
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by deathflute 16y ago
Sorry, that doesn't make sense. HFT is actually not at all capital intensive compared to some other strategies that hedge funds run. The whole point of HFT is to produce high sharpe returns on a small capital base. These strategies do not s
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by deathflute 16y ago
I agree. But if they are making money off it, then why are they talking about it? The trading community hasn't exactly been known for its altruism.
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by deathflute 16y ago
It is quite puzzling why all of a sudden there is a rush to write about hft. Historically, systematic trading has been very secretive and quite understandably so. And now all of a sudden you can read about building hft systems on wordpress
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by deathflute 16y ago
Thanks for recommending that. I'll probably pick up his latest algorithms book.
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by deathflute 16y ago
Sorry, I should have been more specific.CLR is a great book, but it is too referential IMO. I am looking for an easier reading.
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Ask HN: A data structures book
6 points by deathflute 16y ago|5 comments
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by deathflute 16y ago
I agree. 2000$ is a _very_ cheap 1 BDR in manhattan, more likely an "alcove" studio. You really have to go 2500$+ to have anything decent.
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by deathflute 16y ago
I should have been more clear - My goal is to become a competent lisp programmer first and foremost. I will probably end up choosing clojure for my projects because I already have lots of java code and a jvm lisp dialect is more suitable.
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Ask HN: Land of Lisp for learning clojure?
9 points by deathflute 16y ago|3 comments
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by deathflute 16y ago
I would scale down your medical operation bit by bit while spending more time building the skills necessary to launch your start up. Only once you are confident enough of pulling it off, would I work full time on it. Basically, not only you
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by deathflute 16y ago
Definitely Big Sur. Eat at the Big Sur bakery.
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by deathflute 16y ago
How can I make short-term investments in early stage startups?

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