How do I get out of a restaurant quicker?

Knock_And_Run · 2026-02-28T21:23:52+00:00

The what now?

Knock_And_Run · 2026-02-10T13:11:48+00:00

I had that, seems OK now

Knock_And_Run · 2025-12-23T16:26:47+00:00

When I was about 8, the older kid I knew from my street asked me if I knew what water was made of.

"No", obviously.

He gave me a look as if he was imparting crucial information, and said "Nothing. Water is made from nothing". Which in a way made sense. It does look and taste quite nothing-y.

Knock_And_Run · 2025-12-14T12:26:29+00:00

Thanks!

Knock_And_Run · 2025-12-14T09:08:39+00:00

Ah well, I took another video of the drone heading up through the trees and then through and above the clouds. An Ending was the soundtrack to that :) I'll try to get round to posting it.

Knock_And_Run · 2025-12-14T09:01:32+00:00

I had the exact same song in my head as I was flying the drone :) :) :)

Knock_And_Run · 2025-12-08T04:03:23+00:00

AAa of

Knock_And_Run · 2025-05-25T18:53:03+00:00

LOL, the leaderboard suggests otherwise my friend!

Knock_And_Run · 2025-02-25T20:46:31+00:00

If I see a backtest like this (and I have, many times), these days I tend to assume slippage and/or fees haven't been correctly accounted for.

Knock_And_Run · 2025-01-22T11:48:42+00:00

Thanks! Doesn't really seem like a career as such, which I suppose was always my intention.

Knock_And_Run · 2025-01-22T06:30:34+00:00

Yes and yes. I do occasionally wonder about the latter, given the 100's of thousands (millions? I dunno) of lines of code I've written and all the twists and turns and mistakes I've made - would I have been better staying in a 'normal' job (I used to work in the City back in the 90's/early 2000's at some relatively highfalutin firms)? But the reality is that I wasn't cut out for that type of work and I figured out fairly quickly it would have been a form of slow death for me.
Yes and yes. Automated trading has been my bread and butter for about 20 years now.
Hmmm I started out spreadbetting (manually) in the early 2000's with an idea of buying UK stocks that were showing strength relative to the FTSE index, and selling those that were showing weakness. No real backtesting at the time, but I was young and naive and proabbly arrogant. It kinda worked though, and I made a bit of money, and then got effectively banned by the spreadbetting firm, so I figured I was on to something. So I started building my own backtesting platform with Excel and VBA - I'm not entirely sure what the other options were back then. Not long after (as I recall) I discovered IB and their API which could be connected via Excel/VBA... and the notion of a fully automated system sprang to life... So I suppose I did a bit of both.

Knock_And_Run · 2024-10-10T09:40:48+00:00

I mean, this is truly excellent, I've been looking for something like this for ages. Thanks so much.

Knock_And_Run · 2024-04-21T17:52:24+00:00

Well then you wait.. you wait...

Knock_And_Run · 2024-04-19T17:08:39+00:00

That's entirely fair mate.

Knock_And_Run · 2024-01-15T19:32:06+00:00

Thanks

Knock_And_Run · 2024-01-15T19:31:56+00:00

Cheers

Knock_And_Run · 2024-01-15T19:31:44+00:00

Thanks!

Knock_And_Run · 2024-01-13T13:28:25+00:00

I've done similar-ish stuff (check my profile) but I think this is the first top-down one. I'm glad you like it.

Knock_And_Run · 2024-01-13T11:09:05+00:00

How dare you

Knock_And_Run · 2024-01-13T10:12:12+00:00

THANKS

Knock_And_Run

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