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       Show HN: Deploy your own algo-trader in 5 minutes with 0 code
        
       Author : tjs8rj
       Score  : 63 points
       Date   : 2021-02-04 21:06 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | danudey wrote:
       | I'm a little confused. I created an account just for kicks and it
       | immediately said there were 58,912 people ahead of me and 2,877
       | behind me. This means that 2,877 people signed up for the service
       | in the time between my account being created and the page
       | rendering?
       | 
       | But the number hasn't gone up at all, so me and the other 2,877
       | people were I guess part of a huge surge of signups all within
       | the same 100ms or so, and no one else has signed up since?
       | 
       | This is quite confusing, and does not encourage trust.
        
         | tjs8rj wrote:
         | Sorry, could certainly clarify this better. Everyone who hasn't
         | completed any actions falls into the same batch. Providing
         | feedback or referring moves you to the next batch.
         | 
         | In other words, those 2,877 people are others who signed up and
         | didn't complete any further actions, and are all in the same
         | batch for access. Hope this makes more sense.
        
         | bequanna wrote:
         | I get the exact same ahead/behind values and based on your post
         | time, I'm ~10 mins behind you.
         | 
         | I would guess these numbers are meaningless and only exist to
         | motivate you to click the 'Bump me up in the queue' button and
         | complete a survey.
        
           | eggbert12 wrote:
           | Perhaps update delays due to traffic? I got different numbers
        
           | eggbert12 wrote:
           | Don't know how to edit comments, but ahead/behind numbers
           | I've made before can be difficult to implement based on the
           | actions you want to incentivize so they may just be manually
           | updated after reviewing
        
       | asah wrote:
       | Kudos. Sorry you have to put up with the haters on HN who are
       | probably just jealous of the traders who are cleaning up in this
       | crazy market.
        
       | genericacct wrote:
       | Strange that the longest running chart on the front page reaches
       | back to 2008 only
        
         | tjs8rj wrote:
         | Ticker data is expensive! Many of these models have their
         | results from live data, but some are just backtests. Relatively
         | inexpensive datasets for backtesting at the ticker level start
         | at 2008 (unfortunately, obviously, given that considering a
         | flashpoint like that is important for rigorously confirming a
         | model works).
         | 
         | As soon as feasible, I want to purchase the larger datasets
         | that often go as far back as 1985 for a more comprehensive
         | picture.
        
           | satellite2 wrote:
           | It would be nice. My first impression was that the selected
           | models seems very risky and would realy depend on the last
           | decade which was probably the best in 70 years. I would like
           | to see how they would have performed during a crisis (and
           | bonus point for using a log scale on long duration to avoid
           | minimizing the past)
        
           | mrleinad wrote:
           | Related to that, do you have any recommendations on good
           | quality ticker data sources you'd buy?
        
       | Exuma wrote:
       | Interesting
        
       | georgebarnett wrote:
       | Why would I use an unlicensed app with no description whatsoever
       | about the company other than a generic website with up and to the
       | right charts?
       | 
       | I don't know what your intent is but this doesn't fill me with
       | any confidence whatsoever.
       | 
       | If you took this seriously, you would wait until after you've met
       | regulatory requirements to launch.
        
         | tjs8rj wrote:
         | Fair points and I take this feedback to heart.
         | 
         | This isn't so much a "launch" as a "show". This is my personal
         | library. I've been adding to, maintaining, and using this for a
         | while.
         | 
         | My intent is primarily to gauge interest and share something
         | I've worked hard on.
        
       | snarkypixel wrote:
       | My 2cents: to lower the onboarding, would be great to set it to
       | get notification about what /would/ be bought or sold; eventually
       | users will trust the system and move some of their money to it.
        
         | edoceo wrote:
         | Yea, I make a tool that does this. So, my friends who use it
         | just see the historical Actions (buy/sell) and price points.
         | 
         | And one "trick" for backtesting is overlay SPX or SPY or DIA
         | (or other favorite) with the results. Maybe it's obvious but
         | folks new to the game are really helped by a comp to the market
         | visual.
        
         | danudey wrote:
         | This is the thing I always think about with these kinds of
         | systems, whether someone else's advice or do-it-yourself algos
         | or "go here to find this information".
         | 
         | If you follow the advice and record the trades you would have
         | made, you can get an idea of if the advice is solid, and you
         | can also get a hang for not panic-selling your first dip due to
         | new-investor jitters. It also means that you won't follow crazy
         | trends (like impulse-dumping everything into GME) because it's
         | so obviously an outlier that it won't give you any useful data
         | anyway.
         | 
         | When I was in high school there was a faux-stock-trading
         | website, they gave you ten thousand dollars in fake money and
         | you could fake-buy stocks with it. A great way to play around
         | with, and learn about, the stock market with zero actual risk
         | or investment required.
         | 
         | I ended up putting everything in Diamond Multimedia at $5 and
         | pulling it out the next day at $6, then dumping the rest into
         | eBay (within a month after their IPO IIRC) and forgetting about
         | the website until one day I logged in and my investment was
         | 10x. I patted myself on the back and never invested anything in
         | anything again.
        
       | keyle wrote:
       | Cool.
       | 
       | But be very careful of such apps.
       | 
       | They're all based on historical results and often leave out
       | crucial fees and spread that you would incur in high volatility
       | environment. Nor they account for slipping, missing the bus,
       | buying late etc.
       | 
       | A- if it's to good to be true, it is
       | 
       | B- in a gold rush the people getting consistently rich are the
       | ones selling shovels and buckets.
       | 
       | I'm sure technically wise this app is an achievement and I don't
       | want to take away from that, but when it comes to trading algos:
       | ideas are cheap, execution is everything. And you won't beat the
       | big boys at this game.
        
         | jdminhbg wrote:
         | The front-and-center portfolio is the "Boglehead" three-fund
         | portfolio, which is stock/bond index funds. It's not exactly
         | the too-good-to-be-true gold rush model.
        
       | Closi wrote:
       | Hmm it feels like this should be regulated but I don't know
       | enough about US law...
        
         | tjs8rj wrote:
         | Certainly is! Which is why live-trading isn't enabled just yet.
         | This library is my personal one, but the moment you provide
         | investment advice or manage other's money you run into
         | regulation.
        
       | airstrike wrote:
       | Is this an ad?
        
         | soared wrote:
         | Isn't all of show hn an ad?
        
         | veb wrote:
         | Sure feels like it. One would tend to tell HN about their
         | "showing".
        
       | jdminhbg wrote:
       | I'd like to see at least a cursory "how it works" section (unless
       | I missed it?). Do you plug into the API of some broker platform?
        
         | tjs8rj wrote:
         | Good idea. I use Interactive Brokers for most of these to
         | execute the actual trading (though may consider Alpaca given
         | recent events).
        
       | sub7 wrote:
       | Are you funded?
        
       | iwd wrote:
       | This seems like a "problem" that shouldn't be solved. If the
       | thing keeping you from algorithmic trading is difficulty in
       | deploying, you probably have no business doing it.
       | 
       | Cynically, this seems like a way to draw more naive novices into
       | the market. As the old saying goes, if you don't know who the
       | mark is, it's you.
        
       | blondie9x wrote:
       | Vanguard and Fidelity balanced outperform these. Not sure I would
       | use this over those choices.
        
       | tjs8rj wrote:
       | Hey everyone!
       | 
       | This is a collection of my investment modules - strategies
       | codified from my experience in quantitative investing and
       | software development. All categorized into a short compendium.
       | 
       | These models (algo-investors as I call them) serve different
       | purposes, some just remove the stress and emotion of maintaining
       | a portfolio (automated rebalancing, etc), some seek to capitalize
       | on binary events (like elections or regulation changes), some
       | seek to minimize volatility, some seek to "beat the market"
       | (leveraged modules, hedge fund trackers), and some are just fun
       | (wallstreetsbets sentiment tracker).
       | 
       | As some have pointed out: these results DO account for slippage,
       | and many are showing actual live results (not just backtests).
       | 
       | This is a highly regulated environment (I'm US-based), and while
       | not yet registered (in the process), hence why live trading isn't
       | allowed yet, the intention is to have live trading available as
       | soon as possible.
        
       | endisneigh wrote:
       | I recommend the SPY algorithm. Go to whatever brokerage you like
       | and dollar cost average by putting in 1/365 your budget daily in
       | SPY.
       | 
       | Zero fees, and you can set it and forget it!
       | 
       | In all seriousness the Boglehead strategy looks neat, I'll take a
       | look. Is it difficult to start an ETF? Seems like all of these
       | should just be ETFs you can purchase at any brokerage.
        
         | tjs8rj wrote:
         | Glad you recognize this fact. Love explaining the SPY as "rank
         | public equities by revenue, take the top 500, then weight by
         | market capitalization".
         | 
         | Starting an ETF is highly regulated, this differs in that these
         | algorithms just manage your money interfacing with the public
         | market rather than moving in ETF. Less regulation, but
         | encounters tax implications (hence the less frequent trading of
         | these models) among other things.
        
         | andoriyu wrote:
         | If we're talking about long term investment than dollar cost
         | averaging is about the same as lump sum on January 1st.
         | 
         | As for starting an ETF... Well minimal capital requirement is
         | 100k, to launch it's probably 300k total investment. Then there
         | is a lot of legal requirements and obligations. Whole process
         | is at least 6 months
         | 
         | I guess it depends on what's your goal. Some brokerages let you
         | create a bundle of stocks and share them publicly or privately.
         | Which is sound more like what you want.
        
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         | bgirard wrote:
         | Doesn't the research support time in market producing better
         | value over cost dollar averaging?
        
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