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by jik 13y ago
Just for future reference, it's usually considered a good idea to put your status page on completely independent infrastructure so that it stays up even when the rest of your stuff goes down. A status page that doesn't work during
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by jik 13y ago
Quantopian - Boston, MA - Operations Engineer https://www.quantopian.com/about#jobs jobs@quantopian.com At Quantopian, we’re building the world’s first algorithmic trading platform in the cloud. Our engineers are all gene
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by jik 13y ago
Quantopian - Boston, MA - Operations Engineer https://www.quantopian.com/about#jobs jobs@quantopian.com At Quantopian, we’re building the world’s first algorithmic trading platform in the cloud. Our engineers are all gene
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by jik 13y ago
Quantopian - Boston, MA - Operations Engineer https://www.quantopian.com/about#jobs jobs@quantopian.com At Quantopian, we’re building the world’s first algorithmic trading platform in the cloud. Our engineers are all genera
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1 points by jik 14y ago|0 comments
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by jik 14y ago
You'll have to roll your own backtester though when you build your own historical DB. Or you could just PR a new data source class for Zipline that pulls data from IB. Ah, the wonders of open source!
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by jik 14y ago
You are not doing this for "the greater good" you are doing this to make money, as is GETCO et al. Yes, we're doing this to make money. However, making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive, and making money and ste
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by jik 14y ago
Perhaps I just don't grok the zen of HN, but I just don't get why the site doesn't provide RSS feeds of comments on postings. I also don't get why nobody has written something to provide this. Or, at least, if it has been written, I couldn'
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Show HN: CGI script to produce RSS feed of comments on HN post(gist.github.com)
2 points by jik 14y ago|1 comments
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by jik 14y ago
HFT isn't. We're not doing HFT. We're doing algorithmic investing. There's a big difference. (I work for Quantopian.)
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by jik 14y ago
The main reason is because the function to make a trade will only place market orders. We (I work for Quantopian) will surely support other order types when we support live trading. Also, I don't see how the backtester avoids look-ahead
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by jik 14y ago
...but for the last 10% you will need something more powerful like C or matlab or excel. Pandas can stand up to any of those. And you make the (incorrect) assumption that the features that Quantopian is offering now are the same features
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by jik 14y ago
There are all sorts of reasons why GETCO might have chosen to back us (I work for Quantopian), but I can say with certainty that "Steal algorithms from the people who wrote them" wasn't one of them. GETCO really doesn't need to steal other