A Game at Hell’s Gate

Let’s say you lived the life of a gambler and now, dead, you are standing at the gates of hell…

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More Matlab/IB Code

Here is some more Matlab code to interact with Interactive Brokers' API. Check the previous tutorial on connecting Matlab to…

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Survivorship Bias

Survivorship bias is a simple idea but it's a good time to bring it up after the previous notes on…

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Interactive Brokers via Matlab

Here's a video guide to using the Interactive Brokers API with Matlab.The following are the notes that go along with…

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Overfitting II: Out-of-Sample Testing

Previously I wrote a note on overfitting during training. Now after reading that, let's imagine a normal scenario-You're trying to…

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IB Olympiad System Outline

The first version of the system will be organized as follows:VariablesLoad dataPreprocessForecast each data streamOptional: sensitivity analysisCreate a portfolioCalculate position…

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Weirdness is the “Curse of Dimensionality”

I read the following well-written section in "The Elements of Statistical Learning" by Friedman, Hastie, & Tibshirani. This curse of…

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Review: The Poker Face of Wall Street

Yesterday night I finished The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown. It's a somewhat disorganized combination of poker…

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Trading System Description

In the next two weeks, IB's Collegiate Olympiad starts. The following describes the system I'm entering. I previously mentioned that…

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Interactive Brokers Collegiate Olympiad

I'm applying to enter Interactive Brokers' automated trading contest. The "Strategy Plan" I submitted is below. This document is required…

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