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I thought I do a bit of hands-on experimenting with the concept of "basic income". You must have heard of it, if not ... Google. Essentially I wanna figure out a rough estimate on the costs involved and consequently if it's viable or not. A back of the envelope calculation told me it's a...

So I've got this poor guy I pay $100 every month. Not homeless, just on social security for a disease which doesn't really kill him but neither lets him live a life or be employed for about $2000 / month as he used to make prior to falling sick. Abusive family, mother dead, father missing. Of...

Chose as in "past tense". I chose it as my domain of focus some 15 years ago. Was already employed and paid as a programmer since about 5 years, with a formal education in computer science going back about another 10 years. Already knew enough about how things work in this world to figure out...

I'll put this here for entertainment. So we have this program to ease the "burden" of remote work by participating into a program of coffee / watercooler Zoom meetings where one is paired randomly with another colleague who happens to "walk by". I accidentally agreed to it coze I thought it's...

@Matt_ORATS You know, there's a saying about wine but applies just as well to historical market data. "If you pour a glass of wine into a bucket of crap you get crap. If you drop a teaspoon of crap into a barrel of wine, you get crap". A teaspoon of "special data" into the barrel of fine...

Well yeah but it's definitely wrong to include them with regular options, with no indication of the fact that they are "special". Special in what way? I purchase historical market data with the purpose of using it in identifying opportunities through automated backtests. If I have no indication...

And here's MT.

Here's GMQ

Hi @Matt_ORATS I've imported the data from your provided sample "ORATS_SMV_Strikes_20170824.csv" and ran sanity checks on it. I found quite a few cases of garbage data. For comparison, I imported data from historicaloptiondata (my current historical market data provider) for the same day...

Resurrecting this thread to ask @Matt_ORATS some detail about the method of collecting historical market data. I'm interested in daily data, so one sample per day. The main problem I saw with my current historical market data provider is that there's no telling WHEN the sample was taken...

It's apparent that the vast majority of quants don't make any money whatsoever and yet there's a drove of jobs requiring all kinda calculations and transformations and risk assessment... essentially ever more elaborate ways of not making money. And no shortage of candidates for these non-money...

I'd say noone's ever gonna wear that in real life except at some gay pride parade.

I made this :)

Well ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_race_and_intelligence_controversy

OK, I'm bored so I'll stir some s*it up by starting a controversial issue. What do you think about IQ tests? Particularly taking them without any prior preparation versus "studying" for them - there are only so many combinations they give you in tests. And a philosophical if not moral...

Yeah, me too when I try discretionary, I have an uncanny talent of buying right at the top and selling near the bottom. When a trade is still profitable and I close it, I later discover that I made 5x less than what would have been if I kept it a bit longer. But most of the times when I make a...

How much of your own capital did you invest in Forex and how much did you use with leverage? For instance I have $10k of my own and regularly use $20k (borrow $10k from the broker), sometimes reaching $40k.

"We think of long hours and constant exhaustion as a marker of success". I sure don't and as far as I'm aware, absolutely noone I know *really* thinks that. Having grown in a communist regime, I'm also quite familiar with "doublethink" (as coined by George Orwell in his "1984" novel), it's...