a personal website

Author: root

  • Server setup

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    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…

  • Equity research project

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    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…

  • Gap-up short statistics

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    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),…

  • Setting up Mozilla Firefox

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    Update April 2024: In the spring of 2023 I switched from Windows to macOS. As part of that process I decided to give Apple’s Safari a try. I will update this post should I ever go back to Firefox. Like a lot of users today I spend large portions of my screen time in the…

  • Renaissance Technologies

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    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 lot of interviews with Jim Simons and other videos related to Renaissance/Medallion on YouTube but I could not find anything that doesn’t just echo what’s…