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Neural Net Side Project Makes $3500/mo Trading Stocks

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Re: Neural Net Side Project Makes $3500/mo Trading Stocks

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danjoc wrote: post #10

Can you speak to how much up front capital is invested to produce $3500/mo? If you put in $1000 initial capital, that is super impressive. If you put in $50K up front, then still nice, but more modest.

Can't disclose the exact capital, but the initial investment was less than the monthly profit.

Re: Neural Net Side Project Makes $3500/mo Trading Stocks

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billconan wrote: post #12

What api is available to get realtime stock data? And what api can be used for trading? Are they expensive?

I talked about it in the interview. For this first version I used Kite for trading and mostly Intrinio for financial data. Costs vary from provider to provider, but for testing this, I went with some of the least expensive ones.

Re: Neural Net Side Project Makes $3500/mo Trading Stocks

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sputknick wrote: post #13

How much of motivation would you say is profit versus the challenge of the game?

Great question! To be honest, I had this idea in mind for a long time and I thought a lot about it before I actually built it. Therefore there is certainly motivation coming from the challenge of creating this and in some ways I think the profit and challenge factors are somehow correlated.

Re: Neural Net Side Project Makes $3500/mo Trading Stocks

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Post by machbio »

sebyddd wrote: post #11
danjoc wrote: post #10

Can you speak to how much up front capital is invested to produce $3500/mo? If you put in $1000 initial capital, that is super impressive. If you put in $50K up front, then still nice, but more modest.

Can't disclose the exact capital, but the initial investment was less than the monthly profit.

not to criticize you, but this seems to have no logic - "My bot holds a single position from seconds to minutes (sometimes even hours), which makes it more of an automated trader than a high frequency trader" - so your initial investment was less than 25K$,meaning you would be tagged has Pattern Daily Trader with account freeze for 90 days - how does your Algorithm even work with that kind of investment ?

Definitely feeling like this is faux..

Edit: Some pointed it is an Indian Marketplace - but the article mentions that Initrinio provided real-time data but Initrinio only provide IEX (https://intrinio.com/marketplace/data/prices/realtime)

Re: Neural Net Side Project Makes $3500/mo Trading Stocks

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Post by sebyddd »

almoehi wrote: post #16

Can you say something about the software stack you used to build this? Are you using any of the existing libs like zipline or completely from scratch !

I do rely on Zipline heavily + other deep learning libraries. I see no point in reinventing the wheel. The stack is mainly Python and C++.
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