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Cloud hosting on windows for backtesting and launching robots

While a super robot is being created, which by the way shows not bad results on the US stock exchange(NYSE,NASDAQ,AMEX) which I will not tell anything about, there was one big problem – backtesting and processing power. I want to share so far the best service that I have found replacing Amazon servers - ActiveCloud I have been looking for a normal VPS or a cloud on Windows for a very long time, with good processing power, but almost everywhere they give 4 kernels. I needed a lot more and for a reasonable price. Before that, there was amazon option to use, but there it goes into 2 times more expensive. Here's a PC with 16 CPU и 20 RAM will only cost about 30 rubles per hour(You can turn off the machine, when not needed). While everything is fine, the manager called me on the phone once in a month 3 and technical support is operational. Plus give a test period. Installing Windows after registration takes 5-10 minutes and you can start.

Citadel Securities: Computers, stock market managers

Citadel Securities trading platform has quietly become one of the largest forces in the US stock market. From the 35th floor of an office building in downtown Chicago, Citadel closes one stock deal in every eight in the United States. She trades approximately 900 millions of lots of shares per day. More promotions go through Citadel systems, than through the New York Stock Exchange (New York Stock Exchange, NYSE), which trades approximately 700 millions of lots of shares per day. If you own a retirement account or have ever used the services of an online broker, then your trades almost certainly went through Citadel. The most striking fact about the floor of the exchange is, how eerily quiet he looks. The trading floor is "run" by approximately 40 human, but they only watch computers, which use algorithms to fill in and send exchange orders.

How hedge funds are managed 2.4 trillion. Dollars

A well balanced investment portfolio can consist of stocks, bonds, currency, real estate and that, what is called "alternative investment instruments" in financial circles. This last mysterious category includes (apart from other exotic) 10 thousand. hedge funds, who manage almost 2.4 trillion. Doll. assets around the world. Financial publications and gossip sections have been using the term "hedge fund" for years.. But how exactly do hedge funds manage to manage such an incredible amount of capital?? The answer to this question consists of complex calculations, stuffed with Greek letters, but for that, to understand the basics, PhD not needed. If you don't go into details, hedge funds use eight basic strategies: Long/short (Long/short) (25%): investment strategy of the first hedge fund, launched in 1949 by sociologist and financial journalist Alferd Winslow Jones, based on the idea that, that "short" sales (bet against market movement) balance the portfolio and deliver higher returns with less volatility. The increased volume of investments and the number of funds themselves negatively affected the effectiveness of the strategy, но она до сих пор остается наиболее популярной. Другая проблема – корреляция. Стратегия лонг/шорт работает тогда, когда недооцененные акции растут, и переоцененные – падают в цене. In a situation, когда рынок движется равномерно (how, for example, в 2011-ом и периодически – в 2012-ом годах), эта стратегия оказывается невыгодной.

Pair trading: why won't I tell my students about it

A few years ago, a German billionaire started pair trading with two classes of Volkswagen stock.. Ended up, that he threw himself under the train. The strategy of pair trading – buying one stock against selling another within one sector – looks attractive in theory., but can be a real killer of your portfolio. This is how it works: when you trade a stock in a pair, you buy the laggard and sell the overtaker. You bet on reverting to mean. In other words, you think, what share, which performs relatively poorly, over the next period will straighten and overtake that, what worked well. In the oil sector, this could be, for example, Exxon Mobil (XOM) against Royal Dutch (RDS), in the healthcare sector something like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) against Pfizer (PFE). This is a popular strategy, and opportunities can be easily spotted on the chart, where the ratio of one stock to another is displayed, ie. on a relative chart. Here you see a graph of the consumer goods company Unilever. (AND) against his competitor Procter & Gamble (PG). This is a three-year chart, and when the line goes up, this means, that UN is ahead of PG, а когда вниз – PG обгоняет UN.

The influence of the psychological qualities of a trader on the efficiency of transactions

Based on research, conducted in the US and Canadian markets, foreign scientists have established a statistically significant correlation between the positive psychological qualities of a trader and the success of his professional activity., the key to success in the market is the presence of the following character traits of a potential investor: -lack of desire to subjugate the market and control it; -the ability to feel the individual "risk barrier" - that is. limit values ​​of the magnitude of risk, which the investor can assume, and limit values ​​of capital, which he can risk without fatal consequences; -the ability to act outside the zone of psychological comfort, ie. make deliberate and adequate decisions, even if the situation is not going well, as the investor initially assumed; -ability to take into account the selectivity of perception and memory; -the ability to recognize a state of stress and develop protective mechanisms against rash actions in such a state, distance yourself from personal emotions and experiences; -the investor has adequate self-esteem;

Success Tesla Motors

Tesla Motors is an American automotive start-up company based in Silicon Valley., focused on the production of electric vehicles. Named after the world famous electrical engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla.   Among the company's investors are Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin., PayPal co-founder Elon Musk and Jeffrey Skoll, founder and president of eBay. In recent months, the shares of the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors are among the main “stars” in the American market.. For 100 days they have risen in price three times to $114, bringing investors huge profits and bringing the company's capitalization to the level $12 billion is, for comparison, a fifth of the cost of the Ford Motor Company. Despite the drop in quotations on 5,7% on Wednesday, their previous growth is impressive: the company's price has almost doubled since the beginning of May. Tesla's success in selling cars and doing business was the reason for the rise in the share price (later we will see, that these are several different things): sold in the first quarter 4900 electric cars, and the company made a profit for the first time in history, which amounted to $11,2 million. Besides, Tesla promised to return the loan to the government ahead of schedule for $451,8 million, полученный в 2010 year for the construction of the plant and the development of a new model, and also attracted approximately $ 1 billion in fresh investment. It would seem that, the dream of the sane part of the “green” (that is those, кто хочет, so that environmentally friendly technologies pay off) is finally starting to come true. but, everything is far from easy and good. At …

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Why the United States froze MtGox accounts?

Bitcoin scolded, laughed at her, they arrogantly tried not to notice her, but until now it all happened in private, so to speak. Officials have never intervened in the fate of the first cryptocurrency.. Last week this day has come. United States took the initiative, arresting the accounts of the American branch of the largest exchange office in the bitcoin space, MtGox. Call MtGox a Currency Exchange or Simple Exchanger, the essence is the same: this is a trading platform, visitors to which exchange bitcoins for dollars, euros, rubles and other currencies, and back at a free rate. Its popularity is so great, that almost two thirds of all daily transactions in the Bitcoin world are generated here, on MtGox. Founded in 2010 year and registered as a legal business in Japan (under the name Tibanne Ltd.), MtGox survived all sorts of things: there were break-ins, and technical difficulties, and stops for a "smoke break" due to excessive rate jumps, there were even legal claims from competing partners. But there has never been a problem with the authorities. And here it is. 17 May it became known, that in the American payment system Dwolla and Wells Fargo bank accounts belonging to MtGox were arrested.

10% Apple shares were once sold for a pittance

Every self-respecting geek knows, Apple was founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Actually the third co-founder of the company, went down in history as the world's biggest blockhead Ronald Wayne, one of the founding fathers of Apple. This weirdo's name is Ronald Wayne., him now 78 years, he lives in the American city of Pahrump and earns a living by selling old coins. Mr Wayne has been an inventor all his life, on his account more 50 patents, but none of them brought him the desired wealth. IN 1976 Wozniak and Jobs persuaded Wayne to co-found Apple's up-and-coming corporation.. However, Ronald Wayne left the founders after 11 days after the creation of the company. He sold his share for only 800 Dollars, and then it seemed to him a very profitable deal - from the very first day Wayne did not believe in the future success of Yabloko. Experts have calculated: Wayne's mistake cost him 30 billion dollars, that is how much his share would be worth today. Момент вручения подарка Все же изобретателю удалось внести свой немалый вклад в развитие «Эппл»: he became the creator of the first company logo. This logo had nothing to do with the current apple.. The trademark represented an engraving, depicting Isaac Newton, sitting under an apple tree, over whose head a ripe apple hangs. Как нетрудно догадаться, физик изображен за секунду до своего легендарного …

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How the largest fortunes disappear

No matter how much money you have, if you do nothing with them, there will be fewer of them. How much? If you count only inflation, approximately on 40% behind 10 years. And if you add costs? The more a person has, the more he spends. We rarely spend less than 2% his condition, more often the current expenses of a wealthy family are equal to 3-4% of the capital. Including costs for 20 years of your money will remain ... 16%. And the losses from failed projects, debts not returned by friends, charity, presents? While the main business brings super profits, you don't have to think about it. But the moment comes, when investment management becomes central. Solving it, usually, starts with the creation of a family office - a company, who should successfully invest the funds of a billionaire thinking about the future. Many family offices are built as "subsistence farming": they are designed to perform all functions from concierge service to portfolio management (the habit of controlling everything comes from the main business). As a result, a narrow range of products, poor results, "strange" speculation with currency and gold, investment in algorithms, leveraged trading strategies. Many problems arise when choosing investment areas.. Liquid markets are out of fashion today, and family offices are looking for individual "interesting stories". In Russia, it is customary to trust only friends. Oligarchs usually have two types of friends: some ask for a loan, others offer business. …

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Quotes : James Dyson

• I never give advice, because I myself never listen to them. We must go our own way. Dream and act differently, than others. • When you unsuccessfully work on something for a long time and at some point you lose faith in yourself, then, probably, this is that moment, when you almost succeeded. • The path to success is through so many failures! When I was creating a vacuum cleaner, i had to do 5127 prototypes. I.e 5126 attempts were unsuccessful. • My recipe for success is to do this, What do you believe in. Regardless of whether, will you make money with it or not. • The most important thing, when you need to design something, Is persistence and willingness to fail. • Do it yourself and do it quickly. Don't try to sell your idea to topics, who determines the rules of the game in the market today. • If you are enthusiastic, if your ideas give you passion, you will definitely win. • I think, what are the most important qualities for success, it is persistence and true faith in your product. • I believe, that experience is not a prerequisite for success. Quite the opposite, experience can do you no good. After all, he only tells you about, what has worked in the past. • Ошибки — это очень важная …

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