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Show HN: Algorithmic trading for everyone

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Re: Show HN: Algorithmic trading for everyone

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Site down -- Love the idea and been waiting for something like this. I want a yahoo pipes (if anyone even remembers that) for algo trading. I'll wait and see if that's what this is when your app is up!

My app does something like that, only for crypto right now (also waiting to see this app too). https://tradecast.one

Re: Show HN: Algorithmic trading for everyone

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One potential target audience might be employees / executives of publicly traded companies. If Alice owns stock in her employer or her employers' partners / suppliers / clients, she may be very interested in an algorithmic position manager to help her achieve her financial goals (e.g. selling down if the position exceeds a certain percentage of her net worth).

The main reason Alice would like this is to create an audit trail that defends her against any hypothetical insider trading accusations. That is, your brokerage will have records that explain not only what trades occurred (as any brokerage will do), but also why those trades occurred (you ran algorithm F on X input and F(X) is what popped out).

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Trying to fix it. Getting too many requests :)

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Re: Show HN: Algorithmic trading for everyone

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One potential target audience might be employees / executives of publicly traded companies. If Alice owns stock in her employer or her employers' partners / suppliers / clients, she may be very interested in an algorithmic position manager to help her achieve her financial goals (e.g. selling down if the position exceeds a certain percentage of her net worth). The main reason Alice would like this is to create an aud…

Next step: bespoke algorithms with neural nets trained just so to produce the result you want. “We’re about to close this deal, run the algorithm that decides to buy $vendor stock”

Re: Show HN: Algorithmic trading for everyone

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Trying to fix it. Getting too many requests :)

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> Be careful with Heroku DMCA takedown if you don’t plan on open sourcing the project. G

what does this mean, and how would open sourcing help, and what is the G?

Re: Show HN: Algorithmic trading for everyone

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isn't algorithmic trading essentially about leeching from others. i wouldn't call it investing.

No, algorithmic trading is not about leeching from anyone in any intrinsic way. Like all trading there are good and bad actors, and bad actors get a lot of press.

The two biggest roles that “algorithmic” or “high-frequency” or “electronic” traders play are:

- market making: someone has to warehouse a bunch of thing A a and thing B so that buyers or sellers can find a counter party. this used to be an Italian guy from Jersey called a “specialist” and he quoted in eighths so that the minimum he could make per unit was $0.125. he was not giving you a better deal than optiver.

- arbitrage: thing X costs a lot in Chicago and is cheap in New York, or vice versa. buy in the cheap place, raising the price, sell in the expensive place, lowering the price. wash/rinse/repeat: shit costs the same in both places now. people have been doing this since before the wheel, on foot.

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