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There was an American couple living in our village and the guy's job was to be on call during a shuttle launch. Suffice it to say he and his buddies spent most of their days playing poker.
We're building an algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrencies. You write your trading strategy in Python, backtest it against our historical data, then run it live on any of the major exchanges. All in the browser.
Come and experience what it's like to be in on the ground floor at a promising tech startup. We're only a few months old, backed up some of the best investors in the crypto space, and already generating revenue.
More information: https://tradewave.net/jobs/
We're building an algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrencies. You write your trading strategy in Python, backtest it against our historical data, then run it live on any of the major exchanges. All in the browser.
Come and experience what it's like to be in on the ground floor at a promising tech startup. We're only a few months old, backed up some of the best investors in the crypto space, and already generating revenue.
More information: https://tradewave.net/jobs (Note: The job description is for NYC, but we're relocating to London)
We're building an algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrencies. You write your trading strategy in Python, backtest it against our historical data, then run it live on any of the major exchanges. All in the browser.
Come and experience what it's like to be in on the ground floor at a promising tech startup. We're less than six months old, backed up some of the best investors in the crypto space, and already generating revenue.
More information: https://tradewave.net/jobs/
Nobody knows you're twelve years old in a virtual world. I think at one point I was head of the city's night club.
I spent two years travelling the world while freelancing. I was building iOS apps remotely for companies in the UK. You'll be amazed how far the pound will take you in developing countries.
My advice is to spend six months in each location and try to really live there. Typical backpacking didn't work for me while also working.
Suggestions: Chiang Mai, Medellin, Bali, Berlin (cheap, but not the same kind of cheap as the others in this list)
My email is in my profile if you need any tips/ideas.
> Do you provide any access to raw tick-by-tick event data or just bars?
The minimum granularity is 1-minute candles, where the latest candle becomes available at the close of each clock minute (e.g. 02:00:01 if we're fast enough).
> How do you secure your users' scripts so they don't worry about you stealing their ideas or front-running them?
There's certainly an element of trust here. There's a clause in our license agreement stating that we'll never access user strategies unless you ask us to, or it's needed for some kind of maintenance.
We don't trade on user strategies. That's not the model here.
>It might be useful to provide FX rates as a feed so users could come up with a synthetic price for non-USD pairs.
More generally I'll be adding a way to load in arbitrary data via HTTP requests within a strategy.
> For guys who want to work passive orders, an API where they can pass a dictionary of prices/sizes they're willing to buy/sell at into a goal seeking algorithm that handles canceling/placing individual orders might be a better match and more convenient.
These kinds of features (e.g. VWAP orders) are in the pipeline. There's certainly a need for tools like that.
Some of the newer, more professionally managed exchanges support FIX but those are at very low volumes right now.
We're building an algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrencies. You write your trading strategy in Python, backtest it against our historical data, then run it live on any of the major exchanges. All in the browser
Come and experience what it's like to be in on the ground floor at a promising tech startup. We're less than six months old, backed up some of the best investors in the crypto space, and already generating revenue.
More information: https://tradewave.net/jobs/
Happy to go into more details by email.
james@tradewave.net
Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency would be ideal for facilitating micro-transactions like this. Interestingly, the Hashcash concept was originally designed to fight spam, and later became one of the important ideas that made the invention of Bitcoin possible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
I'm not affiliated, but basically Ethereum is an alternative cryptocurrency (or alt-coin) to Bitcoin with it's own separate mining algorithm and blockchain. The really interesting part is that it comes with a Python-like Turing-complete language, such that you can embed small scripts into transactions to define smart contracts.
This theoretically allows you to implement all kinds of applications in a distributed way with no central trusted authority. For example: DNS resolution, options, betting, distributed exchanges.
This is a much wider and rather tricky issue (how do I know that my Bitcoin exchange is performing cold storage correctly and consistently?)
You could answer: more regulations and oversight. Doesn't solve the issue.
(Tin foil hat mode) Imagine the implications of some malicious third party gaining access to that process.
(University of Bath CS grad here.)
There are a lot of people building trading bots for cryptocurrencies, and it's pretty easy to get started by yourself. But not everyone has the chops or patience to do it well; for example gathering, aggregating and storing data across the various exchanges is a huge pain. So my site abstracts away that stuff.
You can't do real HFT with Bitcoin (and others) as the infrastructure just isn't there yet. The lowest I've heard is 15-30 second trades and even that's rare. Most people go for 1-2 hours.
Yes, there are girls. I dated a few. But the ratio is pretty bad and most of them are tired of ubiquitous tech guys. I sometimes felt embarrassed to even mention that I work in tech. Maybe that's my problem.
Imagine you're a lumberjack. Now imagine that everywhere you go, every day, all you hear about is trees, chain saws and axes. Most of your friend's social lives seem to revolve completely around lumberjacking. And there are no girls.
I can completely understand a founder's choice to live there. As an employee, it's not my cup of tea.
Honestly, every response you've written on this thread makes me cringe.
That sentence neatly encapsulates my main reasons for choosing to leave the Bay Area.