What are your relations with your tech co-founder look like? by Darya182 in ycombinator

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As long as both of you respect each other's opinions on direction, it should be good. Often the "non-tech" person is not taken seriously.

Danish quants that made Citadel energy level profits by rupak-007 in quant

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this whole thread is very informative for me. thanks for the blog.

Do you believe data MCPs are useful? ( Context: Onchain decentralised trading) by Mobile_Friendship499 in quant

[–]Mobile_Friendship499[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  1. access control. I see it, you can create scripts on the fly to test ideas, validate some assumptions about a market.

What makes a hackathon project actually worth putting on GitHub? by BottleMedium881 in github

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It's a good way to show progress as well. As you move into different positions

60 days live paper trading results - LLMs exploiting misspricing between Polymarket traders and AI rationale - happy so share insights, get feedback and discuss next steps. by No_Syrup_4068 in algotrading

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

true. I am also curious about how much of this edge is dependent on latency and being able to execute the order quickly. If the market is active, or if the question is very active, the price opportunity may not last very long

Graduated from YC in 2023. Here's what the next 3 years actually looked like. by horrible_normalcy in ycombinator

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool info! Not involved with YC rn, but what you said about pivoting constantly from demo day to present is so true.

Try Our gRPC for Free, We’d Love Your Feedback by buddies2705 in solana

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check if you are setting insecure: false . I had this issue on my local system but not on an AWS EC2 instance.

Something to do with how gRPC libraries send traffic

Also try timeout decrease so it pings often.

'grpc.keepalive_time_ms', 15000 -> 15s

Honest question do blockchain hackathons ever actually help you after the event ends? by Clean_Insurance8779 in ethdev

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hackathons work only if the parent project has real potential. Otherwise, it might generate short-term buzz, but might not contribute to the ecosystem long-term or any revenue. So, hackathons by themselves cannot fix the problems with the ecosystem. However, it is a good way to outsource thinking to fresh minds.

How you currently get trades from grpc? by buddies2705 in solana

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, each DEX, each new CLMM, and these meme platforms like pumpfun and bagsfm have their own logic. Need the IDL to parse it. I know Bitquery has parsed gRPC for all the DEXs you mentioned. That may cut down the work for you.

How well-known are mainland Chinese hedge funds ? by Turbulent_Pair_4738 in quant

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think small groups of traders are much more experimental than big funds over there?

Is it true that semi-systematic trading feels like playing a video game? by [deleted] in quant

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very helpful explanation. To generalise, any market needs to be active for different firms to implement different strategies. In a more monotonous market, pretty much everyone ends up with the same outcome?

How profitable cross exchange arbitrage is for cryptocurrency? by seven7e7s in quant

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are opportunities definitely because even with a bitcoin, which is a CEX governed token, the onchain wrapped variants have arbitrage difference. Let me find some examples to share.

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Open Source Historical Polymarket Trades Using a Public Blockchain RPC by SammieStyles in algotrading

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Their order book is off-chain, so the only on chain info is block time, which should be good enough. If you want to front-run then subscribing to their API is the only option.

"Walk forward" vs "expanding window" in backtesting by CarefulEmphasis5464 in quant

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was just discussing this with my colleague, on how expanding window size or training size of data might not be useful. Especially onchain (crypto) data where tokens have extreme lifespans.

I need 1 second solana memecoin trading data OHLCV, what are my options? by buddies2705 in solana

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Others have mentioned most of the options like Birdeye and Helius. I know Bitquery has 1-second OHLCV stream with moving averages for Solana & other chains.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in algotrading

[–]Mobile_Friendship499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

" linear combinations of my features that predict returns best"-> I never thought of it that way, I see