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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:03PM (#16275351)
Cheapest I can find for 20+ years us stock market data, was on eBay for $100
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Thursday February 01, 2018 @09:26AM (#16282017)
I would have never thought of that. Do you have any info on making a trading bot?
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Thursday February 01, 2018 @10:03AM (#16282284)
I am always on a look out for data... On how to build the bot, the best documentation would be your discount broker API, here is IB for example... From here the sky is the limit...

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041

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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Thursday February 01, 2018 @11:52AM (#16283350)
Thanks. I don't see an e-mail in your profile, but mine is in my profile. If you want to continue this conversation, hit me up.
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Friday February 02, 2018 @08:20AM (#16290300)
Can you share how much computing power is needed to have a bot (or several) automating trading?
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Friday February 02, 2018 @09:26AM (#16290679)
Not much to be frank, as this is not a HFT related, so basically any linux VPS will do, (I have a few around the world for redundancy)
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:10AM (#16291072)
and if it becomes an HFT situation?
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:09AM (#16291614)
for HFT, you'll need millions for infrastructure, co locating servers in the stock exchanges, etc... definitely not one man life style business...
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:16PM (#16299368)
Isn't this data the same one can get from Yahoo Finance?
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Sunday February 04, 2018 @01:40AM (#16301675)
Not anymore, the yahoo finance is unfortunately broken...
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Sunday February 04, 2018 @07:25AM (#16302471)
I have it working pulling historical data based on symbol
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Sunday February 04, 2018 @09:33AM (#16302848)
Sure, but there are maybe over 10000 companies including non existing ones and you need them all for your back testing to be valid...
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:06PM (#16304612)
I see your point. Scripting this and running on cron could help.
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Sunday February 04, 2018 @11:35PM (#16306621)
Make sure the delisted companies are included...
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