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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making money through algorithmic trading? by anonu on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:01PM (#16933075)
Your answer is confusing... it sounds like you traded actively by "scalping" - but you admit that you got lucky via buy-and-hold ... So you didnt get paid on alpha - but just regular beta. Very few people have alpha....
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making money through algorithmic trading? by aflagatopamoon on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:48PM (#16938333)
~0.1% lending bot, ~12% scalping bot, ~7800% algo-assisted technical trading.

The luck was that when you took a BTC profit on alts, BTC would have 5x in the mean time, so you 5x your profits. And even if you made a loss on alts, you'd still break even dollar-wise.

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