umitanuki
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Co-founder & CTO of @AlpacaHQ, commission-free stock trading API brokerage for bots and devs https://alpaca.markets/
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Comment · 4 years ago
None of the blockchains use 2PC. The blocks may get discarded after a while. Sort of eventual consistency
Comment · 7 years ago
Alpaca, a YC W19 building free stock trading API ( https://alpaca.markets/), is hiring a Front end/Fullstack Engineer, 3-5 years strong React and/or Go. Located in Downtown San Mateo a few blocks from Caltrain.
Anyone with passion around API/dev tools/trading would be great. We are big fan of open source and your github profile is resume.
Last chance to be a member of the fast moving one-team company (~15 ppl, pre-A/A)!
email directly to CTO: [email protected]
Comment · 7 years ago
Thats a general critique for published trading algorithms I've ever seen millions of times, but if you kindly take a close look at it, it accepts which stock to trade as parameter, and I'm running it with some other stock than the default parameter.
Comment · 7 years ago
As we build our API trading brokerage, we wanted to show something like HFT algo can be built quickly. Chatting with an ex-HFT guy, I quickly built this and put it in GitHub, so anyone can run it. 261 lines of python. Check out https://github.com/alpacahq/example-hftish for the code and a bit of explanation on medium https://medium.com/automation-generation/hft-like-trading-al...
Comment · 8 years ago
Principal number one; don’t overcomplicate yourself. Keep it simple, stupid
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
You will access to the historical data. https://docs.alpaca.markets/web-api/market-data/ working to cover more
Comment · 8 years ago
We are working hard to support non-US users!
Comment · 8 years ago
I can see that. Traders in Wall Street are too practical to build something maintainable. Now G Sheet brings the same power but to software developers this time.
Comment · 8 years ago