>Girls Who Code
Sexism is good as long as victims are men.
Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets
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#53>Girls Who Code Sexism is good as long as victims are men.
The most prejudiced among us are always those quick to make the issue about themselves (poor me!) when someone tries to do something good for an underrepresented group. I assume you've never been to a "Girls who code" event (I have, and I'm a man), but if you had, I don't know how any reasonable person could think "this is a bad thing".
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#54I actually did some basic analysis of this recently - can you really make money in the stock market trading on Trump's tweets. https://medium.com/karan/can-you-really-make-money-when-real...
My answer was maybe but I'd rather not put my money at the mercy of a lunatic.
Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets
#55Very cool. Funds have been capitalizing on Trump's tweets since at least December (but probably November) of 2016: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-07/flash-cra...
I'd be interested in learning why TradeKing was used , as I haven't used it myself - was it for an especially solid API, or just because TradeKing is easy to get set up and doesn't require a minimum investment? If anyone wants to play around with this and has at least $10k to play with, Interactive Brokers will give you better fees.
OP, you might be interested in Quantopian's Zipline algorithmic trading library, which is also in Python: https://github.com/quantopian/zipline
Also, I feel like there should be a disclaimer that given how accessible this strategy is (both in required skill and resources) and how much attention the Trump tweets phenomenon has gotten, any alpha from this has been almost certainly lost to other firms. This is a cool project, but it's probably not actually an effective strategy anymore.
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#56>Girls Who Code Sexism is good as long as victims are men.
Sexism[0] isn't the right word here, since it implies the belief that the victims are less able, which women are clearly not. I won't assume you hold that belief. Discrimination[1] is more neutral and is the better word to describe this situation.
I do occasional technical talks or workshops for free and some organisers have asked to make them 'girls only'. I've always declined and made it clear that everyone will be welcome. I don't see any malice in people who want to do gender-specific events, but I do not agree that excluding people is the way to go.
I say good luck to you if you are doing 'girls only' events. You are welcome to come to mine too, even though as a man I may not be welcome at yours.
[0]http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sexism
[1]http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/discrimin...
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#58>Girls Who Code Sexism is good as long as victims are men.
Who is victimized by Girls Who Code?
Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets
#59This could make quite a fun experiment to see if it works. Crowdsource an investment of something like $10,000 and let it run for a year. At the end, donate all proceeds to charity.
It did work* as of December 2016, but I would guess something as accessible and straightforward as this has been arb'd out: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-07/flash-cra...
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*But the devil is in the execution - and the amount of capital leveraged.
Re: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets
#60You know at the end of Men in Black it zooms out and our galaxy is just one marble in a galactic game?
I feel like this game is just a small scale version of the one being played by a higher force by making Trump president.