Yes, education in the US is another problem, but I was talking about this phenomenon:...
Yes, the visas are being abused on a large scale by using them for importing cheap labor (Indian outsourcing companies received over half of the...
"(...) bitterness, instead of a form of disillusionment, is really the refusal to give up your childhood illusions of importance. Ignored instead...
Detroit needs a superhero to clean up the filth. Maybe something like a half robot, half cop?
Ask yourself: the Nth percentile of which distribution?
eoddata.com is not expensive.
You should be making an 8-dimensional matrix (that's what vectorization means, building vectors and matrices) and apply your function to that....
For accurate backtesting, one needs to define his/her historical universe. Suppose I want to trade small and micro cap stocks only, so that I...
Python is even easier.
Pascal is just a fad. Abacus and sun dial are my preferred tools for trading!
You don't need a DB layer at all, really, but I might use tick data someday, so it can't hurt to plan ahead. I suppose HDF5 is less complex...
Thanks, interesting info. However, we are talking EOD data here.
After more reading, it seems that HDF5 is more suitable for time series. Well-supported by both Python (PyTables) and Matlab.
Currently planning a similar project (EOD stock database for Python and Matlab access). I have little practical experience with SQL, but I'm...
Things that I personally would consider are: * Doing scientific research and publishing articles. (Not everybody's idea of fun, but your work...
OK, from the viewpoint of retiring systems this makes sense. I was assuming equal risk allocation and equal expected returns per trade for...
:) The trader's equivalent of Einstein's quote that "God does not play dice". Suppose you test 2 strategies on the same period. A's trade...
I have one. But that's not my question. To clarify further: I plan to swing trade. Holding periods vary between a few days and a few weeks.
Contemplating a move to the US, on a H4 visa initially (i.e. spouse of H1-B visa holder) and hoping to land a H1-B myself too. I plan to...
By the long periods of inactivity and relatively large jumps, I conclude that the number of trades is small. Too small a sample size to conclude...
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