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Re: Ask HN: Anyone designs financial engineering tools as a hobby?

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Post by mattz0rt »

metahikari wrote: post #30
mattz0rt wrote: post #28

A bit different from what most financial engineers are interested in, but I'm in the process of developing a linear programming model for the US tax code so you can do long term tax optimizations based on your financial profile and goals. It was a lot harder than I anticipated but got a PoC working recently. Ugly landing page at https://smarterpath.co

Signed up! Your site doesn't look that bad - I actually like the layout. If you don't mind sharing, what did you use to create the landing page?

Yup good ol' wordpress with the Contact Form 7 addon for the early access sign-up. Would like to do a redesign at some point to make the value prop more obvious, but getting a public beta out has been the priority recently.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone designs financial engineering tools as a hobby?

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Post by isseu »

_spoonman wrote: post #33
AndHeiberg wrote: post #11

I don't generally, but I've been hacking away at the infrastructure for high frequency trading crypto currencies for a while. I originally just wanted to do arbitrage trading, so I built a simple tool to find opportunities using pre-existing services. But as I slowly learned more about it, I had to expand it into monitoring the exchanges in real time with orderbooks and past trades to get around annoying false positi…

Count me in, would love to get on a discord server or IRC channel. edit: sorry, should point out I've been doing the same for a while and have hit some challenges I'd love to discuss.

Me too! I would like to chat

Re: Ask HN: Anyone designs financial engineering tools as a hobby?

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Post by _spoonman »

isseu wrote: post #62
_spoonman wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Count me in, would love to get on a discord server or IRC channel. edit: sorry, should point out I've been doing the same for a while and have hit some challenges I'd love to discuss.

Me too! I would like to chat

Reach out to me. Contact info in profile.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone designs financial engineering tools as a hobby?

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Post by jerry40 »

tacostakohashi wrote: post #60
jerry40 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is the interesting idea to make this tool as generic as possible! Like a framework for matching different types of events based on some rules + a visual explanation for any chain of matched events. Perhaps I should think about this idea. Thanks!

Yeah, and the visual explaination part is actually just as important as getting the right results. For any complex system with financial impact there will always be people claiming that the output is wrong, so you need to be able to quickly and easily justify everything.

Yes, I agree. Sometimes there were so tricky cases that it was impossible to explain why that tool matched those deals.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone designs financial engineering tools as a hobby?

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Post by blackbrokkoli »

creo wrote: post #39
blackbrokkoli wrote: post #27

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Both of these sound incredible cool, is there a Git repo to check out or something?

Actually You made me think about going back to it. Thanks!

Well, you motivated me to actually get started with something like this - doesn't mean I can actually beat my procrastination, but if, you definetely played a big part in it. So thank you!

And if you go back and modernise it, I'm still interested in Github links :D

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