Used rsruby successfully, but it doesn't seem to work well with Rails, which I tend to use as a front-end. I've successfully found my way around...
Good luck finding shares to short. That is the real issue with the strategy.
More important, how do you trade it? MAESTRO posted, sometime around Dec 2009, a method talking about taking current price and dividing it by a...
Well, in my opinion, it depends on the interface you want to use it with. I found that for the few times I want to use parallelism in extreme,...
You want to minimize the signal error covariance between the systems -- i.e. allocate your capital such that when one system is making 'bad'...
I should have said they <b>easily can be</b> a complex form of curve fitting if not used an intelligent manner. In the wrong hands, they are a...
'Black-Box' machine learning, like neural networks, are an elaborate form of curve-fitting because they have no natural interpretation. Those...
This claim could be easily refuted. He is saying that reversals take place in conjunction with the moon cycle -- whether they are bottoms or...
There are plenty of available packages for scientific computing in Ruby. The ones that spring to mind are the gsl bindings (ruby-gsl),...
And perhaps you do indeed colocate, and for you, speed and efficiency is an issue because your strategies rely on it. In that case, C, C++, or...
And I highly doubt that you are using C++ in such a manner that requires its efficiency. Unless you are doing high frequency trading, the...
A thread only runs on one core at a time. If your application is single-threaded, it will only run on one core. What core it is assigned to...
Is it merely downside volatility, or both upside and downside? Typically, you get a skew in equity options because they "crash down," whereas...
Well, it really comes down to access patterns. How do you plan on accessing the data? What data will be frequently accessed together? Are calls...
Yep, and I consider them to be the devil :D No 'evidence' why, I just did not enjoy using them. Perhaps I didn't spend enough time, but I never...
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