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TopInvestor··on It’s Time for Real Time Settlement
Got it , just an observer working for the establishment. Why you didn’t invest your own $’s if your algo is so good? Other peoples’ money I know. Is that a real job? HFT is a scam. What about naked short selling (hft by other name )? Making money out of thin air? Selling something you don’t own? You did the hft for that too? What about GME now? 1.8 million missing shares . What your algos will do to the market? Crashing it?

Now the hedge funds are a joke, no? They aren't buying 50 million shares at 30c, nor $100, nor $300, and that's their problem. You can do hft all in nanoseconds - nothing is helping them. PRICE DOESN'T MATTER

How hft algo is helping the hedge funds now? The market will be never be the same , no hft , no newsletters , no apps will save it .

And this isn't a financial advice.

TopInvestor··on It’s Time for Real Time Settlement
Just try with your own $ and you will learn from practice. Good luck following recommendations. Practice is the best teacher. Now - do you have thousands $’s to learn from your mistakes?
TopInvestor··on It’s Time for Real Time Settlement
I don’t give any advice. I was probing to see the reaction . It is amusing to look at postings glorifying the pundits advice. They are not your friend.

Have you actually placed a limit orders? Do you practice this advice with your own $’s? Do you know how much taxes you pay for a trade considered day trading? If the limit order is executed same day it is considered day trading. What is the point then?

Why retail investors are penalted for that but hedge funds are not? Are you retail trader or on the other side of the table? If so why you are giving advice to retail investors? The motivations? When I used to follow the pundits “advice” they were always wrong - limited orders were immediately executed. These “fluctuations “ causing execution of limit orders are never reported in the historical data . I used to purchase historical data for thousand $’s and never found these fluctuations in the official dat I saw on the screen. Meaning you can never rely on historical data for analysis. If you had the same experience you would know. Learning from practice I’ve different way of making $’s.

TopInvestor··on It’s Time for Real Time Settlement
Wondering if I had $10,000 to invest I would use an app.
TopInvestor··on It’s Time for Real Time Settlement
RH is giving a loan - these are margin accounts. That is why it had to raise $ billions.
TopInvestor··on It’s Time for Real Time Settlement
The general recommendation is never use limit orders - do not reveal your intention to the other side.
TopInvestor··on Robinhood Raises Another $2.4B from shareholders
Citadel, 1.8 mill shares missing because of naked short selling, because they are counterfeit, because all hedge funds are doing this , because connect the dots, because the game is rigged, because it is illegal. At the end RH is in the game selling the stock owned by investors without their consent.
TopInvestor··on ImHex – A Hex Editor
All my devices are Retina ones. Who uses LCD today?
TopInvestor··on ImHex – A Hex Editor
When I go outside green is the color my eyes are looking for to relax. Also pixels in the white background emit the maximum energy. One reason Apple introduced the dark mode is the pixels to emit mostly the valuable information and save energy , thus saving the battery life.
TopInvestor··on ImHex – A Hex Editor
Dark mode with green letters - a standard for hours of working before the screen since 1980’s . The white background is not good for the eyes.
TopInvestor··on Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
Some people might see he knows who won the reelection.
TopInvestor··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
Betting websites use the certification of the Federal Election Commission in order to pay out wagers.
TopInvestor··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
Nothing is officially certified.
TopInvestor··on I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call
With Otter it is complicated. It iMac needs the sound to be split but Safari is not allowing it. So they recommend Chrome and changing it’s settings. Then setting up aggregate device. But it is not working. The only way it is working is if the sound is also coming out from the speakers and the microphone is picking it up. Too complicated, there is a feedback and no streaming to the hearing aids. So Zoom + Otter is out of the picture. Teams has the captioning and the best quality. What happens is a lot of companies are demanding in using only Zoom. This is a misters why they just don’t use the link of the Teams invite. If they don’t have it installed it is working from the browser too.
TopInvestor··on I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call
For anybody interested the following equipment works the best: 1) Oticon hearing aids + TV streaming device connected to iMac via audio interface. It streams the audio from the computer to the hearing aids . 2) Teams + captioning. In order the person needing to see the captioning to see it he has to initiate the meeting and sharing the link. The link never expires and could be saved in Notes from all members of the group. The members of the group needs to share the meeting time via other means for example email , text message. Compared to Zoom, Google meetups Team has superior video, audio and captioning capabilities. There are desktop and iOS versions of Teams. No way to use Otter reliably with hearing aid device because it requires Chrome browser and needs physical sound from the speakers to work. Internal networking the sound is not working. 3) Phone calls - CaptionCall. It is free service paid by the FEDeral government. You sign up and receive dedicated phone number which you enter in settings for call forwarding. When you are calling or somebody is calling you CaptionCall is intercepting the call and forwards it for machine learning+ person transcriber. This is the best combination. 4) Messaging across devices -WhastApp. No video or audio captioning in iOS so - using only messaging. Used for announcing Teams meeting.

All other solutions do not do anything to accommodate-WebEx, BlueJeans, etc.

Microsoft is having the best accommodation service - there is dedicated web site with free 24/7 support for people needing accommodation. One Teams account is just $5/month and the support is responding within several hours.

TopInvestor··on Ask HN: Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?
Fast compilation was one of the main reasons Golang was invented.

The gradual accumulation of #include clauses in C programs scales very badly. A large distributed compilation system was created in Google to handle the slow compilation. One reason is you never know if some #include is actually needed.

In Golang unused dependencies are a compile-time error. The generated object file includes type information for all related import dependencies in binary format. This speeds up the compilation significantly.

TopInvestor··on Ask HN: Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?
I made this playground: https://play.golang.org/p/S1Yh0Oq24q-

There are a ways to do unique enums with implicit repetition. Like this: I 0 1 2 II 101 102 103 III 201 202 203 IV 10 20 40 80

TopInvestor··on Ask HN: Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?
I started using Golang 8 years ago and introduced it to the company I worked for to build several web services from scratch.

The reason it was adopted quickly was that building RESTful Web Services or gRPC Micro Services is relatively easy because all the libraries needed are native to the language. Of course I was building .net SOAP web services for years and knew the customers' needs. Another reason was the developers knew first hand how inflexible was configuring IIS with its web.config and the efforts needed to make it work.

Then the adoption of Kubernetes was easy too because it was written on Golang. The next transition to GCP was natural too. Basically being backed from Google made all this technology development and adoption a natural and I'm glad that I made this choice early.

Another reason I'm using Golang is that my recent project is mobile-GCP solution making possible to get information about 80mil/100GB US Property database in iOS App:

https://topinvestor.app

One of the reason this functionality was made possible because I managed to create Gomobile embedded database in iOS which is much faster than SQLite or CoreData for my purpose - creating geodetic solution - tapping on the map is retuning lat/lng which are two numbers and creating just one number representation of location suitable for key-value datastore.