Category: Blog

  • 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),…

  • 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.…

  • A wish list for Apple

    Who knows, maybe someone at Apple will see this, so here’s a list of things that I noticed and that maybe could be improved: System Preferences Safari Finder macOS Apple Books Preview app Keynote/Pages/Numbers

  • 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…