Removing the golden handcuffs

Aquarians said:
OK, part of the skills sausage was a joke, same like $40,000 / year before taxes for a developer in general (not just the one who's missing one or two of those "skills").

Actually I've seen both similar lists and similar salary quotes and not just in Europe, although I must say I do 98% of my searches here, but also in the US. Try looking for jobs in "Chicago" or "Denver" or "Cincinnati" and you'll see them too. Not everybody lives in New York or Palo Alto.

Anyways, that's one thing having seen jobs listing where you evaluate yourself as competent for (I'd make a ton of money if I played that game) and a WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY trading them for real and not just on paper (as in your head).

Did you actually APPLY FOR THOSE JOBS? And like got 3 or 4 positive answers (they'd hire you) but you rejected them? (To politely reject an application that turns better than you must initially hope, remember they're wasting their time as much as you're wasting yours for the interview, you can always raise the bar. Ask for 50% more on their initial salary offer, which is more than your current salary anyways. If they balk, good, you haven't lost anything. If they hold, that's where it gets interesting. You'll have to find for yourself from this point on, though).

So:

1) Have you or have you not *actually* applied for those hot jobs hiring hot college kids straight from the college at $100k+?
2) How many interviews have you got?
3) How many job offers were you offered?

Thanks for sharing.
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I have not applied for any jobs because I do not currently want a job. It would be a waste of my time to prepare for interviews. I have problems to solve and code to write.
 
fan27 said:
I have not applied for any jobs because I do not currently want a job. It would be a waste of my time to prepare for interviews. I have problems to solve and code to write.
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See above.

Not that I don't wish you luck, I just don't charge at bayonet in front of a machine-gun equipped trench before first at least bombing the shit out of them with artillery.

Then I'm sending my newly developed wea^H^H^H tan^H^H drones.

If if gets to the next point then it's interesting.
 
fan27 said:
This coming Friday will be my last day at my company of thirteen plus years. The company builds and sells SDKs and SAAS products centered around digital imaging. I have learned a great deal about what it takes to build, sell and support software. Time to take what I have learned and apply it to my own ideas. Having a family and children (one under 5 years old), my scarcest commodity is time. Not for long!

For the past year and a half I have been working on an SDK/App (C# .NET Core) that uses machine learning techniques to dramatically automate finding trading strategies. It currently supports EOD as has exceeded my expectations in terms of usefulness. I have two more items to complete to fully prove out my idea before I can polish it up and make it a commercially viable solution.

1. Add support for intraday futures data and be able to find profitable strategies.
2. Add ability to automatically generate code from those strategies to be used in an external platform for live trading (considering AlgoTerminal as the first platform to target).

Assuming I get those two items figured out, I should a fully functioning product by October 1. I have a considerable financial runway but am only giving myself until the end of 2018 to get some initial traction with the product.

Good times!!
fan27
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You are going to be OK in any case because you are in an area of high demand and with your experience you should have no trouble finding employment later if that becomes your only option. Go for it! I wish you the best of luck.
 
Great progress on the project recently! I am finding numerous profitable intra-day strategies with my platform and this past week I hand coded a select group of strategies in AlgoTerminal and I am getting identical results in both platforms. Next week I will generate code from my platform that can be run in AlgoTerminal. The week after I will do a "live trading" test run against a paper trade account and verify the trades match what my platform would have generated via a back test. If all goes well I will be live trading by October 1st. Once live trading, I will polish/package my product and get it in front of users who are currently running algos who may be looking for automation capabilities that my platform provides.

Good times!
 
> I will do a "live trading" test run against a paper trade account

A live trading test run on a paper trade account, that's a new one, What a joke.
You will find paying customers, I guess there's a sucker born every minute, right.
 
traderslair said:
> I will do a "live trading" test run against a paper trade account

A live trading test run on a paper trade account, that's a new one, What a joke.
You will find paying customers, I guess there's a sucker born every minute, right.
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And the following sentence states:

"If all goes well I will be live trading by October 1st."

Note no quotes or test account qualifiers in that statement. Hope that clears things up for you.
 
fan27 said:
And the following sentence states:

"If all goes well I will be live trading by October 1st."

Note no quotes or test account qualifiers in that statement. Hope that clears things up for you.
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People who have no idea about the difference between development and production demonstrate [loudly] that they do neither. :rolleyes:
 
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