Why PYTHON?

Quote from ktmexc20:

With all due respect to you and to an established product like Matlab...

Why spend thousands of dollars on a matlab like commercial product ?

Here are two Python module packages who's users have come from Matlab to a better, faster, easier, and opensource (also free, as in beer) sw.

Notice who the developers of numarray are... heard of the hubble space telescope?


Scipy

Numarray
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These are nice packages - I use them. I also use Matlab - although not so much anymore - and Mathematica.

Engineers are usually trained these days to use Matlab. Some Scientists are trained to use Mathematica and Maple as well as other pakcages available through national labs and many of which are now open sourced - BLAS etc.

Our goal is to use open source when we can - which is most of the time. Some things are just better done in Mathematica or in some cases Matlab, or in other cases our own libraries written in C.
 
Quote from 377OHMS:

.Unfortunately I have to stop trading. This afternoon I'm signing an NCA and NDA that finishes my short trading career. Yep, I'm gonna be a HF quant-developer weenie. :D And yes, this is my last post.

I'm a little sad to leave my engineering career and am terrified of my new position.

Anyway, dont forget to learn some high-level language along with your C++ and Java work and the next thing you know you'll get a call from some HF or IB or make the money on your own (or bust out:D). You might be surprised how fast that happens. A year ago I didn't know what an ATS was.

Good luck and good trading to all!


377 Ohms = the characterstic impedance of free space :cool:
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Another systems trader bites the dust? :confused:

I don't get it. These guys (me too) spend untold hours designing, testing and trading these systems, then they go to work for a HF and have to stop trading (think Acrary)???

Well hell, there is a sizey paycheck and bonus, but I would/will/am beg or borrow the money to trade my stuff on my own and build it into a monster.

Is it that these guys are just hedging their bets because they believe their systems will quit working soon, or it's just too hard?

Or do they need that paycheck that badly?

Sorry for the thread detour.

Regards.

C
 
No matter the toolset they are gifted with very few people truly believe they can win and even fewer know with certainty they will win.
 
Quote from Choad:

Another systems trader bites the dust? :confused:

I don't get it. These guys (me too) spend untold hours designing, testing and trading these systems, then they go to work for a HF and have to stop trading (think Acrary)???

Well hell, there is a sizey paycheck and bonus, but I would/will/am beg or borrow the money to trade my stuff on my own and build it into a monster.

Is it that these guys are just hedging their bets because they believe their systems will quit working soon, or it's just too hard?

Or do they need that paycheck that badly?

Sorry for the thread detour.

Regards.

C
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You're just mad that the only people left on this forum are those who don't know anything.
 
Quote from PuffyGums:

You're just mad that the only people left on this forum are those who don't know anything.
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Alllrightty then...If that's the case, I guess I better leave you and the other two guys here! :D

C YA
 
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