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Server setup
While I’m not a systems administrator by a long shot I have used Linux in the past and thought I might be able to come up with a suitable setup for my requirements. I could have just rented in the cloud but since I had access to older enterprise hardware for free (through my brother’s…
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Equity research project
This project is about building and maintaining the infrastructure that I use to research and trade equities. It’s not about specific trading strategies. I started this project years ago after investing successfully for around 10 years. I am still in the process of organising content for this website, so all pages related to this project…
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Gap-up short statistics
After looking for stocks/patterns to trade and creating a database of candidates over a number of years I wanted to know: Is there a set of variables that will reliably predict how a stock is going to perform? The question I’m trying to answer: using tracking data from my database (containing mostly low-priced, low-float stocks),…
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Setting up Mozilla Firefox
Since a lot of users spend large portions of their screen time in the browser it makes sense to invest a little effort in a good setup. No browser is perfect because people have different views on what that means. This post is not about making any claims of browser superiority—use whichever product you prefer.…
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Renaissance Technologies
After reading Gregory Zuckerman’s The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution I wanted to find out more about Renaissance Technologies (RenTec). There are a ton of interviews with Jim Simons and other videos related to Renaissance/Medallion on YouTube but I could not find anything that doesn’t just basically repeat…