Nostradedamus

I solve Time ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URZHbauY1yw

But high stress can do some amazing things to your brain. And immediately when I found this out I use it at my advantage. For years I worked on my project with results like "a step forward, two steps behind". So I quit my job with only a few thousands $$ and put as much stress on my "system". I found my "eureka moment" a few days before I ran out of $$. They call this the survival instinct.

Look, I "bootstrapped my brain" all my life…maybe because I was lazy or impatient and wanted quick solutions.

On HN, I see lots of amazing individuals with great education, work experiences using "expensive" vocabulary.

I am not one of them. I was below average in school but "bootstrapped" my professional life using my personality and my imagination. I ended up creating something beyond my wildest dream.

You're not wasting your life sitting in a cubicle. Your mind is always free to create and discover...

Remember this: Albert Einstein had a simple clerk position in a Swiss patent office. While working at the patent office, Einstein had the time to further explore ideas that had taken hold during his studies at Polytechnic and thus cemented his theorems on what would be known as the principle of relativity.

Well...this is how:

It was 1997, I just landed in San Francisco as a fresh new commercial Architect/Designer... and I was just starting coding in my spare time.

I got lots of contracts designing new .com Startup and was invited to there "opening" parties. At one of the party, someone asked me a question that will change the course of my life.

<<are you going to invest in our coming IPO?>> IPO... what the hell is this ??? I said...

A few days later, I came across an article about how Miami was fighting crime using a Pattern Recognition Software. And I thought I could apply the same kind of software onto the Stock Market... and this is how I found my passion.

> The implicit idea of "algorithmic trading" is that an automated trading strategy can capitalize on an (empirically true) hypothesis about the world.

Bingo !

- Don't buy at the opening bell - Volume = momentum (apply law of gravity here) - Algo must reflect the Day Traders "spirit" (profit taking = specific % downward) - Uniform circular motion is the key

- Keep your algo simple and match them with observed patern vs gain

- Apply algo between 9:30am and 1:00pm (greatest price movement)

- Keep in mind, greed is the destroyer...small gain but often and constant

Been working on trading algo for almost 17 years. For the past 5 years the % positive results have gone up 10% yearly.

2018 was the breakthrough year.

Happy about the accomplishment...but a bit sad the project is completed...