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ryansmccoy

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About ryansmccoy

“We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire.

You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.”

— Charlie Munger

"Be skeptical, very skeptical, and even more skeptical. Great Analysts rarely accept anything at face value... Good Analysts always challenge what they've been told or given.Over time, if a source of information proves accurate, let it into your circle or trust...If we include the financial press, and everything distributed by companies, I'd say at least 75% of the information out there for consumption is misleading or omits an important piece of information relative to the topic."

- James Valentine, Former Morgan Stanley Analyst

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes"

Mark Twain

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    Check out books Dark Pools and Flash Boys for some stories about HFT... https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Pools-Scott-Patterson-audiobook/... https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Michael-Le…

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    Comment #25175589

    Generating cash flow return on investments.

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    Comment #24919747

    If interested in Financial Markets, Quantlib is interesting. https://github.com/lballabio/QuantLib Also, there is a book which describes the different patterns used: https://leanpu…

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    As a former equity analyst, I would say that it's probably better just to ignore this analysis then read too much into it. The performance of company's stock isn't based solely on …

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    Comment #24747680

    I'm pretty sure you can add multiprocessing parsing of csv with Python and Pandas. I think I've done it before.

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    Comment #24699960

    Washington University in St. Louis?

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    Comment #24688684

    I'm always reminded of the movie Grandma's Boy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLR3faI7lU

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    Location: United States Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Go, int Java/Scala/C#, Javascript (Node.js, Jquery, React), R, AWS, Azure, GCP, Hashicorp Terraf…

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    Comment #24424866

    SEEKING WORK | United States | Remote or Onsite - 13 years designing and building mission-critical software, data, and cloud solutions for customers in the Financial Markets, inclu…

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    Again, I don't know, but I'm comfortable speculating that it is (partially). The other obvious reason that I could think of is that Colorado is a very appealing location to live (f…

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    I haven't seen the S-1, so I don't know.

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    Unless I'm mistaken, according to Amazon's 10-K in 2002, they showed a Net loss of: 2002 - Net Loss: -$ 149 million 2001 - Net Loss: -$ 567 million 2000 - Net Loss: -$ 1.41 billion…

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    Yea, I don't know what's going on besides what I read. I would much rather see the screenshot for myself then have someone else explain to me what they think the most important asp…

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    Obviously, I don't know what's going on at Palantir besides what I've read, but I know a few things about Finance. A tax loss isn't necessarily all bad news. If you have a tax loss…

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    Joe Rogan had some interesting guys, Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson, that talked about lost civilizations due to asteroid in 10,000 BC. Sounded like there is some controversy aro…

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    Basically, you can think of the stock market (price) driven by two components: 1) an aggregate of all company profits in the stock market and 2) the cost of borrowing capital (disc…

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    SEEKING WORK | United States | Remote or Onsite I've spent the last 13 years designing and building mission-critical software, data, and cloud solutions for customers in the Financ…

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    Location: United States Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Go, Javascript (Node.js, Jquery, React), R, AWS, Azure, GCP, Hashicorp Terraform & Vault, Databa…