"In the high desert plain of New Mexico, Roger Hunter monitors automated trades on hog futures and currency pairs. Four computer screens display a dizzying array of price charts and program codes in the office of his single-story, thatched adobe home in the town of Las Cruces. Out back, where scrub brush stretches into the arid plain between the nearby mountains and the Rio Grande, is a 50-foot-tall wireless Internet tower. The 66-year-old former math professor turned DIY quant apologizes if he appears out of sorts. As chief technology officer of a two-man startup called QTS Capital Management, Hunter just pulled an all-nighter fixing a systems glitch. It’s a far cry from Wall Street, but Hunter wouldn’t have it any other way. “You are away from the hubbub and frantic activity of New York and therefore can be much calmer and more thoughtful,” Hunter said one recent morning, grinding hand-roasted coffee beans. His Kiwi accent is still thick, three decades after decamping to New Mexico to teach abstract algebraic theory. “This is particularly true when developing code and exploring new strategies.”.." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...at-the-gate-the-inexorable-rise-of-diy-quants
New mexico. Hmm that's where http://www.predict.com/introduction.html are based. Thanks for the link. GAT
It sure looks like TWS but what's "OI"? Here's his business partner's blog: http://epchan.blogspot.com/
Currency pairs are great for algo trading, but hog futures ? WTF ? Where did he come up with that as an auto trading instrument ? Anything that moves....CL, NQ, etc. is the way to go. Autotrading a flat line is stupid IMHO.
I trade hog futures.... albeit more slowly. I would imagine that running a market making strategy on a 'flat line' is highly profitable. GAT