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You must be a veteran/very experienced programmer. It's not that trivial? It's one thing to work with text files, another to deal with an idiosyncratic API, sockets, wrappers etc. Take a look at IB's tutorial on YT for example, not that instructive. I'm surprised there aren't any decent courses...

was referencing the 'go live' part. Have you automated yourself?

What's the best way to go from backtesting in C++ to first steps in automation of futures trading? Has anyone here gone down that path themselves, using say IB or LiteSpeed's APIs?

What would happen if your reversed long on say NFLX and TSLA today? Have you considered going over your past trades to see if that would have worked?

I'm looking up his trades and not quite able to line them up. Do you think his trading statement time is based on Sydney, Australia time? Why would a guy sitting in SD be using a broker out of there? Is that routine for forex

Now THAT, is another story - hard to beat those combos...

Yeah pizza and burritos I understand, but bowls of granola with fruit and peanut butter? I don't know

Thanks Tiddly, so pre tax margins of around 10%... sounds like a really tough proposition if in a small-medium town, even with good location? Do you have any experience with this type of franchise?

Take one new line, the 'healthy bowl' business, usually involving exotic fruits and a gluten-free type menu. Estimates for startup are around $200k to $500k or higher depending on location. Even if you're at the bottom end of that, $200k of debt (assuming you have little cash to begin with) sets...

The issue isn't that others are storytelling too often or too much. The issue is that YS himself tells stories about Brexit, tech and regulation, China's shadow banking etc, while refusing others their own stories. One might say, well he may have data to back him up. Really? What data does he...

"YS: We tend to shy away from the storytellers and look for those who are numbers-focused." (proceeds to tell a story...) ...

Why the Quants Aren't Adding Up: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-19/quant-funds-poor-performance-may-not-be-temporary https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-16/quants-take-a-beating-as-momentum-strategy-lags-stock-rebound

How many of those blow ups happened in the last 3-4 months?

With the speed/complexity with which algos are spoofing-trading these days, there's no way he can tape-read as he used to do back in the early 90s... market has changed as Buy1Sell2 said in another thread, in its 'logistics'.

Your quote is ill-conceived in that it implies that the market rose and is now falling because of algos. The truth is a little more nuanced: the market's rise was artificially boosted by algos on the upside beyond what the fundamentals would reasonably suggest and conversely the market's fall is...

But wait, didn't blankfein say they were doing 'God's work'?

Indeed! A. Gary Shilling is an oasis in a desert filled with quant sand and tears

'The market can remain algo longer than you can remain solvent...' John 'M1' Keynes

probably wrote the book now that tape-reading doesn't work anymore (due to algos speeding things up beyond recognition)...

Quant investors face test of faith in 2019 Sharp reversals in market trends has hurt performance of some big quant funds this year "Investors have been piling into computer-driven hedge funds in recent years, betting that advances in areas such as artificial intelligence and big data will help...