vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
The answer is to your question is somewhat complicated. You will be unable to compete with the firms traditionally associated with High Frequency Trading in any of their strategies. Most of these strategies which involve marketing making, latency arbitrage, and rebate collection. The amount of engineering required to build the infrastructure required to run this at scale makes it something which can only be undertaken by a team of highly skilled engineers. Indeed, the advantage of firms competing in this space such as TradeBot, TradeWorx, and Getco comes from this infrastructure as most of the strategies that are developed are necessarily simple due to the latency requirements. Now if you expand the definition of HFT to include all computerized automated trading you most certainly can build strategies that are profitable. It is not something that you probably want to tackle on your own but I know of a couple of people that did go it alone successfully for a couple of years before joining an established firm to run a book for them. In order to be successful you will most likely need to develop a unique strategies. The good news is because that you are trying to deploy a very tiny amount of capital you can engage in trades that larger firms would not because the strategies cannot hold enough capital relative to the firms capital base.  I am the co-founder of a small trading firm that successfully trades the US Equities and Equity Derivatives markets. A couple of things to note is that if you want to do this you should consider building a real business. Having some more smart brains around you will help. You don't need exchange colocation for all strategies. Many firms, including ours, colocate in a data center that simply has proximity to the exchanges data centers. You will need to keep things simple to be effective.  Don't except all the group think that this is impossible. It is possible although as a single individual it will be more difficult. It will require long, long hours as you climb the algorithmic trading learning curve. Good luck.
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"Ok, I stand corrected. Still... those papers are quite away from my field of expertise and I don't want to lose a lot of time learning all the financial lingo. I asked an easy question: ""Is this [the everything bubble] a thing or not?"" It seems that it's not, but I still wanted to know more about it."
I use and recommend barchart.com. Again you have to register but it's free. Although it's a US system it has a full listing of UK stocks and ETFs under International > London. The big advantage of barchart.com is that you can do advanced technical screening with Stochastics and RS, new highs and lows, moving averages etc. You're not stuck with just fundamentals, which in my opinion belong to a previous era. Even if you don't share that opinion you'd still find barchart.com useful for UK stocks.
I knew my question was coherent and I knew what I was getting myself into when I started this thread. I actually do have a lot of trading finance and stock books in my bookshelf. Although I can go try to find a solution to my problem it's still not the same if I were to ask someone just gave me a straight answer. But if you want to respond abstractly then I understand.
"No it's not. High frequency trading specifically aims to take a profit without speculating on the movement of price, using technological advantages and exploiting arbitrage opportunities rather than anything else.   Big firm trading I agree to an extent (that's why I made the comment that markets may or may not be efficient), but I think it's more nuanced than ""run a projection and see if the price goes up."" And as I say, traders at big trading firms generally have access to information and tools that we don't at home, so if you want to invest in something invest in it - don't try and guess where the price is going to go because people do that professionally and often still get it wrong."
"What do I mean by infrastructure? Well, if you're doing algorithmic trading, you have to have something monitoring data and making decisions on its own, presumably. How do you set that up? There are many ways, and some are better than others. First is a problem of scale. If you're a newbie starting out with some small set of equity tick data, perhaps just trades for instance, you can whip together something that can handle that pretty easily. Check out http://www.marketdatapeaks.com/ though. That's your messaging rates you have to deal with once you go full data feeds direct from all the exchanges. 6.65 million messages/events per second. That's a lot. And if you fall behind, you lose your lunch. Building a robust system that allows you to easily backtest and deploy strategies is crucial as well. The speed at which you're able to conduct the backtest matters a lot. Doing that rapidly, and accurately is not easy. For a broad market-data handling algo design (and now, clearly, for very specific things you can design one that'll handle stuff better for that one corner case, but this is for general algo trading), optimally you have some sort of setup where you have a: [feed handlers] -&gt; [tickerplant] -&gt; [mkt data subscribers/CEP] -&gt; [order management system] -&gt; [broker] in this setup you have feed handlers that are taking the raw exchange feeds and pushing them to a consolidated tickerplant, where CEP subscribers can come through and sub to the data they want (perhaps I just want ES futures on one, and only want to arb CMCSA and CMCSK on another -- you dont want each CEP subscriber getting your full feed for all tickers all the time, its a waste). so more or less, each independent strategy is its own subscriber to the tickerplant, taking whatever data it wants and only that data (could be ""give me all the trades and quotes for all nasdaq stocks, but not book depth"" for instance).
"TDAmeritrade, an online stock broker, provides banking services within their brokerage accounts. The service offers all of what you are looking for. HOWEVER, this service is only available for free with their ""Apex"" qualification.  Here is a tariff of their fees and services."
If you are looking to gamble online, this is one method to do it. But this isn't investing, you are as mathematically likely to lose your money and/or become addicted as any other form of money-based gambling, and absolutely treat it the same way you would a casino: decide how much money you are willing to spend on the adventure before you start, and expect you'll likely not get much or any of that money back. However, I will moralize on this point - I really hate being lied to. Casinos, sports betting, and poker all generally have the common decency to call it what it is - a game where you are playing/betting. These sorts of ""investment"" providers are woefully dishonest: they say it's an exciting financial market, a new type of investment, investors are moving to this to secure their futures, etc. It's utterly deceptive and vile, and it's all about as up-front and honest as penny auction websites. If you are going to gamble, I'd urge you to do it with people who have the decency to to call it gambling and not lie to you and ask for a ""minimum investment""."
&gt; Taking rough rice as an example, there are millions (if not billions) of people who eat rice to survive. People will always need oil to fuel their cars. People will always need electricity.  Commodity values are unlikely to go to 0, I agree. The fact you think this is super-relevant suggests to me you have not fully grasped the nature of the commodities futures markets.  &gt; I don't like to be too risky  You are looking at getting into extremely risky securities.  &gt; I guess what I am trying to do is look into things that allow me to profit, regardless of where equities are going.  Many men have died searching for the holy grail. Speculating in these markets is not for the faint of hearts, let alone for the risk-averse.  &gt; I have gone as far as to look through OTC ADRs to find some foreign value, and I found nothing.  There are plenty of funds offering lots of exposure to international equities, which seem well-geared toward the individual investor.
In the UK there are spread betting firms (essentially financial bookmakers) that will take large bets 24x7. Plus, interbank forex is open 24x7 anyway. And there are a wide array of futures markets in different jurisdictions. There are plenty of ways to find organizations who are willing to take the opposite position that you do, day or night, provided that you qualify.
Is there a place to discuss Investment Strategy? Particularly as it pertains to Global Macro and a variety of asset classes ? Alot of the investing subreddits seem to be based around equity investment only, and focused on US large cap for the most part. I rarely ever see posts about EM equities which have outperformed this year for example, and it would be great to talk about things like Asset Allocation.
"Well, it's not even just about dealing with a half day. There is literally a message on every single data feed that states ""this is it for this trading session"". Why the hell would you consider any data after that as something you'd process?"
"Okay, so you don't know what other options are available, understood. No need to be a dick. In other industries, deals and transactions are invalidated, reversed, refunded or other measures taken all the time when they're based on invalid information. Hence, why I was asking what options there are for these situations. I know that if I saw CSCO go down 40% and the info scanned on official sources that I would dump a ton of money into buying it up if I had it available. I mean, hell, it's Cisco Systems who practically owns the internet. They'll be back up from that hit and fairly quickly. To find out that was all just because some over-worked programmer put a comma where there should have been a period would have me on the warpath if trend was actually the other way. With the amount of money that flows through such a system, there has to be some kind of process for dealing with these things. If you don't know, then no worries. There's no need to jump on me for asking a question when a simple ""I don't know"" would suffice."
Very interesting. I would like to expand beyond just precious metals and stocks, but I am not ready just to jump in just yet (I am a relatively young investor, but have been playing around with stocks for 4 years on and off). The problem I often find is that the stock market is often too overvalued to play Ben Graham type strategy/ PE/B, so I would like to expand my knowledge of investing so I can invest in any market and still find value. After reading Jim Rogers, I was really interested in commodities as an alternative to stocks, but I like to play really conservative (generally). Thank you for your insight. If you don't mind, I would like to add you as a friend, since you seem quite above average in the strategy department.
In most countries trading platforms are legally required to be overseen by a regulator, in the US this is the SEC (Securities and Exchanges Commission). This regulatory oversight is required in order to operate (i.e. have clients) in that country and the company will lose the right to operate in that country if they do not comply with the regulations. If you believe that you have genuine cause to complain that a trading platform that you are using within your jurisdiction is behaving unfairly towards you you can report this to the regulator and they will investigate so long as you can provide them with some concrete evidence. Note that in many jurisdictions gambling websites are also regulated (they are in the UK for example) and so arguments about their fairness are specious. A big problem with a lot of these complaints is that people who lose money are very vocal about blaming everyone else, people who make money are very vocal about their own amazing skills... think about that!
Banks also need in-house web developers so if you don't want to switch from doing that then it should be possible. Especially if you are up for working with mobile/ubiquitous computing side of things. That seems to be the next step for retail banking anyway. For investment banking I'm not really sure of the need of web developers. I guess some offer different forms of online platforms (e-trading stuff) but most of what developers do is internal stuff that never see outside customers. Those could be built using similar technologies I guess.
I can go on a rant about how much I know, try to shamelessly prove to you how smart I am by throwing out a bunch of shit that I've learned, but none of that means anything. Of course I know how to approach it from a business perspective. Legally, I have friends who can advise me in my immediate area. But experience, wisdom, people who have been in similar positions with some sage advice, isn't something you can learn in an MBA classroom. I don't think there's anything wrong with using Reddit, as a resource, to gain some further insights. Regardless, I appreciate you and your time.
&gt;implicitly through their fee structure.  Index ETF and stock trades cost the same at Robinhood (free).  Do you believe Robinhood (and other brokers) should charge a fee for single stock trades to discourage investors from purchasing them over index ETFs?  Honestly, I'm not saying this idea is right or wrong.  It's an interesting proposition.
"I'm posting this because I think I can do a better job of explaining and detailing everything from start to stop. :) A ""broker"" is just someone who connect buyers and sellers - a middleman of sorts who is easy to deal with. There are many kinds of brokers; the ones you'll most commonly hear about these days are ""mortgage broker"" (for arranging home loans) and ""stockbroker"". The stockbroker helps you buy and sell stock. The stockbroker has a connection to one or more stock exchanges (e.g. Nasdaq, NYSE) and will submit your orders to them in order to fulfill it. This way Nasdaq and NYSE don't have to be in the business of managing millions of customer accounts (and submitting tax information about those accounts to the government and what-not) - they just manage relationships with brokerages, which is much easier for them. To invest in a stock, you will need to: In this day and age, most brokers that you care about will be easily accessed via the Internet, the applications will be available on the Internet, and the trading interface will be over the Internet. There may also be paper and/or telephone interfaces to the brokerage, but the Internet interface will work better. Be aware that post-IPO social media stock is risky; don't invest any money if you're not prepared for the possibility of losing every penny of it. Also, don't forget that a variety of alternative things exist that you can buy from a broker, such as an S&P 500 index fund or exchange-traded corporate bond fund; these will earn you some reward over time with significantly less risk. If you do not already have similar holdings through a retirement plan, you should consider purchasing some of these sooner or later."
Yes, Alpha Vantage. As MasticatedTesticle points out, it is worth asking where it originally comes from, but it looked to me like a solid source for, in particular, intraday trading data. Additionally, Yahoo finance is done on R (zoo, PerformanceAnalytics libraries don't work anymore as far as I can tell). The numbers look right to me tho, let me know if things are off.
There are a few other ways to take a position on stocks using less money than the share price: Fortunately, eToro do not allow leveraged purchase of stocks so you're reasonably safe on this point. They claim this is because of their 'responsible trading policy', although I find that somewhat questionable coming from a broker that offers 400:1 leverage on FX pairs. One final word on eToro's ""social trading"" feature. A few years ago I was in a casino playing Blackjack. I know nothing about Blackjack, but through sheer luck of the draw I managed to treble my money in a very small amount of time. Seeing this, a person behind me started ""following"" me by putting his chips down on my seat. Needless to say, I lost everything, but amazingly the person behind me got quite annoyed and started criticizing my strategy. The idea of following other people's trades just because they've been lucky in the past sounds entirely foolish to me. Remember the warning on every mutual fund: Past performance does not guarantee future returns"
Fidelity, Charles Schwab, TDA, and just about every make online brokerage gives you massive amounts of free trades each year and when you sign up. Pretty much the same as 100+ free trades /yr over a 10 year period. Also, you get commission-free trade for the most popular ETFs, which is much more important.  Lastly, if you care about free trades, you're probably investing poorly. Non-professionals shouldn't be making that many non-ETF trades in a year. Professional traders wouldn't blink over a tiny $5-10 commission fee.
He's a python programmer who does a lot of videos on this very topic and has his own tool on quantopian called 'Sentiment Analyzer' (or something like that) which basically quantifies sentiment around any given security using web scrapers to scrape various news and media outlets. Crazy cool stuff being developed over there and if you're good, you can even be partnered with investors at quantopian and share in profits. You can also deploy your algorithms through the website onto various trading platforms such as Robinhood and another broker and run your algorithms yourself. Lots of cool stuff being developed in the finance sector right now. Modern corporate finance and investment knowledge is built on quite old theorems and insights so expect a lot of things to change in today's world. --- With a math degree, finance should be like algebra I back in the day. You just gotta get familiar with all of the different rules and ideas and concepts. There isn't that much difficult math until you begin getting into higher level finance and theory, which mostly deals with statistics anyways like covariance and regression and other statistic-related concepts. Any other math is simple arithmetic.
I know nice and free stock screener for UK (and 20+ exchanges) - https://unicornbay.com/screener?f=exchange_str|%3D|LSE;&s=MarketCapitalization|desc&p=1|20 from Unicorn Bay. It supports both fundamental and technical analysis.
As others have pointed out, they do in fact exist.  But it may be worth pointing out a possible reason that they are not as popular as commodities futures. If I want exposure to the oil market (for example,) buying oil futures has a big advantage over buying oil. Namely, I don't actually need to store the oil; I can roll over my position rather than taking delivery. On the other hand, buying single stock futures does not have such a compelling advantage over buying the stock itself, so most people would simply do the latter.  (Although stock futures might provide some other advantages in some very specialized situations.)
Try ThinkOrSwim by TDAmeritrade. It allows you to paper trade with a powerful trading platform. There's also a mobile app so you can trade on the go. Good luck!
If real investors are leaving the marketplace, and only gamblers are left, then it is no longer an investment platform.  The market was designed, and allowed by our people &amp; govt, to be an investment platform for effective resource allocation.  A Gambling engine is not an effective resource allocation mechanism.
I would recommend that go through some forums where commodities topics be discussed so that if you have some issues related any point in commodities investment you will easily get your question sort out.
Depends on what you are doing, in energy trading it is all about R and SQL, I still use Python for scraping and as a general scripting language though. In my opinion if you know how to program in one language you can likely pick up a different language without too much trouble, at least that has been my experience. So for entry level just showing that you can program in anything might be enough.
I go there and all I see is an overhyped get rich quick conference that you sold tickets in groups to artificially inflate demand. I see no substance. Are you connected to grasshopper labs, where (and I quote) :   &gt; the first organization devoted to empowering entrepreneurs through technological innovation and real-world expertise  Really? Youre the first? See, hype.  Also, youre trying to sell internet phone for $10 a month? You must depend on some pretty NON-tech-savvy customers.  I bet youre a people person. Youre probably even nice. But you present yourself as very naive, and your 'goods' dont pass the smell test.  Pro tip 1 : dont brag about income. Its non-pro.
"&gt; Well, if you only own the option, you are only limited to loosing the premium. With futures, at least with the brokers I talked to, most of the time you need to sign a margin contract just to trade futures. I don't want to go into debt, and I don't think I would do too well to be fairly honest.  This isn't how margin works. Your broker would demand more money before coming back to you.  &gt;  I am a college student, and want to limit my risk  Yet you're talking about things that are very risky, and that you don't take seriously.  &gt;  To me honest, if I had my way I would just buy and hold, and that is the strategy I want to emulate closest  Why aren't you buying and holding equities funds? Why not have your way?  &gt; Basically, I want to avoid debt, but still trade commodities.   ""Margin"" in futures isn't a loan. It's the fraction of the value of a contract you actually pay. There's no borrowing involved.  If you want less risk, don't get the maximum you can, but rather have cash reserves.  You do not sound like you are in a position to be investing in these sorts of instruments at all."