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    Automated Certification

    you sellside or buyside? if you're buyside you dont need it
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    How to analyze backtested data?

    in python ... you would need to change input ... pd.read_csv('youfile.csv') import pandas as pd import Quandl es=Quandl.get('OFDP/FUTURE_ES1') es.corr()
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    Creating an autospreader

    :eek: I dont even remember how I wrote that. If I find the source code I'll post it
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    What can you do as a proficient programmer?

    that's 2 more than I have. What can you do if you cannot program in trading? You can work in back office, sales, execute orders, "business development" program or be programmed :D
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    How To Get A Job At A Hedge Fund (Forbes article)

    thats where the action has always been
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    Writing Robust Trading Code

    For retail I wouldn't even worry about this. Just have the number of you broker so you can cancel over the phone if necessary. Focus on strategies , research
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    I never cease to be amazed by Ubuntu

    its not so much trading its the development of trading systems. I think linux is just easier to program on.
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    Java - Storing data in memory for post-runtime access

    I would cache the data too. If you leave your data on disk what happens if you run multiple backtests in parallel that need the same data
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    Learning How to Really Program/Code

    this is very simple and will get you productive but as I said before 99% give up within a couple weeks. http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/
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    Basic algorithm of ATS ?

    something like this. but you dont need it to start; you can just do it all single threaded and use callbacks class Producer() Producer(queue) this.queue=queue void produce(msg) this.queue.put(msg) class Consumer() Consumer(queue)...
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    Looking for code that draws trend lines or linear regression lines (preferably in C#)

    https://code.google.com/p/accord/ http://www.mathdotnet.com/
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    Open source command line linux portfolio backtesting

    https://github.com/quantopian/zipline
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    long term or multiple short term

    the movement in the 12-18 month option is more due to implied vol than direction of the underlying
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    Guidance in building an automated trade system

    this is the most difficult part. you need to clearly define "trendline"
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    Custom Trading API Interfacing - which is the richest market for services?

    its really the crowd you want to target and how much you value your time. Some people (most retail investors) are very cheap so custom work would not be worth it... but a generic newsletter with nice graphs and tables seem to work. Those using TT or CQG are only slightly less cheap but both...
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    Any good math/stats books suggestion for trading?

    http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Poker-Bill-Chen/dp/1886070253 http://www.amazon.com/Fixed-Odds-Sports-Betting-Statistical/dp/1843440199
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    R programming questions..

    not sure how R interp works but doesnt it bring back a function that you can pass args to to get an interpolated value? so you could create your own points
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    Trilogy of MATLAB, R and Python in quantitative trading

    Python: simple syntax and is a programming language; not only numerical crunching R: tons on packages. it lets me pretend to be a statistician Matlab: I used it in college and recently now at work. There's a nice gui but it doesn't appear to have changed. OO is still the same. And do I...
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    C

    I thought it was you who was religiously devoted to C. I just pointed out that its the wrong tool for the "common tasks" you described in your first post. However, I do think C has its place for other things.
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    C

    the original poster wrote "Common tasks like downloading index component lists, historical data, etc."
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