>Here are some statistics about the random-entry trading system. One reason I’m doing this is so that I have an ordered sense of what this system is capable of. Another is that these results can serve as a benchmark for comparing other systems against. Finally, I want to share this with the world. The evaluation […]
>I haven’t updated this blog for a while, and this is since its been a busy time for me. In the last few months, I’ve had a big change in my family life (I don’t live with them anymore) and have finally gotten out to the real world on my own. So far its been […]
> Neural nets? What? Why? Huh? With real-estate, I currently have the problem of not enough capital to begin investing with. The algorithm to solve this, currently, is simple enough; save up money. Since I can only work so many hours a day, I am left with oodles of free time (Even after reading and […]
>MLS #: E1772676 on www.realtor.ca. Sale price of $70,000. 2 bedroom rental prices according to www.viewit.ca: $745/mth and up. Financials Upfront costs: Down payment: $17,500 (I’ll just use 20% downpayment from now on due to the change in the rules for government-insured mortgages) Land transfer tax: $425 Income: Rent: $700 (Lets go below the market […]
>So right now the plan is that I save up as much money as I can, and put up an emergency fund. Eventually I want to own a business, and right now I think that business would be in real-estate. I’m not an imaginative person, so I’ll just use the Monopoly formula that is explained […]
>The following code is an example of how to use the array of BAR-objects (Created here to create simplifications of the price information (The raw data) that will then be used to make trading decisions. As before, the code is available as a Lisp-file here. ATR stands for Average True Range. The true range of […]
>The following code is the first part of the project to make a system for back-testing trading strategies. The raw data that we work with is defined by a “bar”. A bar is is a representation of the movement of price over, usually and traditionally, a period of time. A bar is further defined as […]
> My road to Lisp I had learned C and C++ in high school, but only the basics (Programs that imitated calculators, and not complicated ones at that). It was a royal waste of 2 years of computer classes. In fact, I learned more about C programming from a book I took out from the […]
>This program is written in the MQL4 programming language. This language is domain-specific and is used on the MetaTrader 4 trading platform. The syntax and semantics of this language are, to put it quite simply, just like C. Like C, its a nice language, and is easy to learn. All you need to do is […]
>A mission statement is a really difficult thing to come up with. It requires you to capture your deepest drives and desires, and thats still not enough. you have to express them then. In other words, this is a document that will be a perennial work-in-progress since over time: I’ll change as a person, and […]