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>> What's the point in the blind (you) leading the deaf (OP)... Well, I did state somewhere earlier on one of these forums that I've got $50k to burn on the *development* of an options trading system, aside from my contribution as both a software developer with 15+ years of experience and...

>> They can develop their own charting platform. They fully control how data is processed from the tick level. This allows them to do things such as merge multiple datafeeds and have multiple layers of processing that would be a lot more difficult if not impossible to do in a standard charting...

What makes you think that the advice of others isn't part of those 10,000? ;)

Most of developers working in "finance" don't know or care about trading, and the few ones who aspire at this... there's no better representation of their context than this:

Unlike the other programmers, I asked myself "why" and made 1,000 experiments to understand how this works. Now, I'm exactly in Edison's position, "I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work" :)

Well, one of my favorite jokes is this. A teenager goes to his rich dad and says: dad, I'm going out with the guys, gimme some money. Dad says "well, go to the safe and take some". Kid asks: "ok, how much should I take?". Dad says: "a couple of inches".

>> what you have said thus far is fairly generic and obvious. lets get into the meat of the matter. what kind of vol dynamics are you using. Well, that's most likely because they never did that actually in a professional setup so are just repeating common memes. I worked for a while for guys...

Corollary: due to the fact that at least some of the extremely smart people realize their odds (afterall they're smart) and never apply, it's not even granted that the pool of candidates you select from is actually "the best". Hence, Joy's law: "no matter who you are, most of the smartest...

OK, ignore last 5 posts, that's beer wisdom :p Continuing with programming interviews, the second major problem can be summarized as "probability". One fallacy when applying to jobs is that the employer thinks "he's only hiring the best" and the employees who passed the interviews and get hired...

Interesting how apart from scrambled ks and ws, these two concepts are both so close and so far apart: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunkworks_project

That guy who doesn't make much of a difference is me. In the meantime I'm working for 70 IQ guys pretending they're 100.

In the sense that $7M per month or per year? Well, if you can afford either of those, it doesn't make a difference.

That being said I dunno about 700 IQ point bovines in charge of hiring $7k ones. The universe is expanding but perhaps not at a higher rate than we can manage. Obviously I'm a $7M idiot who honestly thinks can save this world, but I've seen worse.

Honestly, my IQ out of the cold (think penis size when you get out of cold water) is about 110. Which, retards who only got *that* far or perhaps some 10 points more with sucking devices and expensive training, think it's all there is. It's not even an average. It's a WORST CASE SCENARIO, you...

Well, IQ or penis size, your opinion on what matters is irrelevant unless you build your profitable business doing what you preach. Just because so far there's no highly competitive and successful enterprise constructed on anything else than abject totalitarianism and psychopathy, does not...

So in summary, the first major problem of programming interviews is the arbitrary curriculum and discretionary evaluation. On a side note, your experience is useless. Whatever the job specs may say, like you're working on the greatest system ever built with the smartest humans ever to have...

Jewish Problems: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556

Programming interviews have a lot more in common with "Jewish Problems" than rigorous, objective and impartial curriculum. Like 99% of first and 1% of the second. Compare them with university admission problems. a) Universities: there's a well-known curriculum you have to know (high school...

If I were to identify myself with a person in history, I'd say I'm Chevalier de Méré. A nobody, not a noble (or rich, in this 21'st century world) and fully conscious of it. For guys like me, beating the odds is their only chance. And not only I'm quite good at it but I've come to realize my...

I hate them deeply and sincerely. I'd rather take a shot at a reverse Russian roulette rather than going through another one. Reverse Russian roulette is like this: pick a fully loaded revolver, take one bullet out, spin the wheel, put it to your head and shoot. Yup, I hate them that much. And...