General musings from someone in over their head
It’s been nearly 2 months since my latest update, but not because I’ve been inactive! Been quite busy on a new front, as I’ve almost accidentally started a side hustle, that of an Etsy shop producing movie prop replicas. If anyone is looking for some replicas of the business cards from American Psycho or Fight…
I’m mainly posting here to touch base with the progress of my program: there really hasn’t been any. Other than daily price updates and analysis, I haven’t made any changes to my code since around the time of my last post. I’ve found my time eaten up by my day job slowly getting back to…
So I’ve been live trading using picks from my program for about 3 months now, with mixed results. Things got off to a great start, but ultimately the picks started getting worse and worse. It could very well be the market doesn’t want to play nice, as it’s been very schizophrenic as of late. Could…
These last two weeks have been a bit of a roller coaster, in relation to the market. After two great buys last week, the market decided to make things interesting by going topsy-turvy in the first half. It looks like Fed head Jerome Powell’s talk today brightened everyone’s outlook and brought the market back up….
Just when I thought things had settled down, two more major changes are now underway. First, recent download problems of the price data have resulted in my being guided toward a better download solution, but one which will require me to once again rewrite a good portion of my download code. Hopefully this will be…
It seems my questionable enthusiasm in my last post was warranted; after a whole week of live testing, I’ve encountered a major problem, one that’s seriously gumming up the works. I had begun working on a front-end for my program, one that would both output all the day’s buys and sells, as well as more…
The endgame is nigh! Well, the first endgame, anyways. If you know programming/coding, then you know you’re never really finished, there will always be bugs to squish and code to optimize or functions to update. But the first major “release” of my program is so damn close, I can taste it 😀 BTW, I’m not…
As I manually gather more data for my program to digest, I come across some interesting bits that I hope will help me either be a smarter trader overall, or help me come up with new ideas to put into the program. For now, though, it’s just interesting information that fill up my brain with….
Welp, let’s face facts: we’re in a recession. Sure, the markets are pretty much where they were before the Great Stay At Home Order of 2020, but let’s be real: it’s all artificially-propped up. It shouldn’t be where it is, what with unemployment at record highs and businesses closing left and right. So obviously… I…