Does anybody here do algorithmic trading on small scales (like a home computer)? How has it been working out for you?
I don't know too much about Economics but I have a good understanding of Math and Matlab, Octave, R, C, C++, CUDA, etc.
Any advice for a beginner?
>>1430055
curious bump
>>1430055
the human brain can do a better job.
>>1430055
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First, read this XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/1570/
I need money to feel confident - the thread.
Does money make you feel secure in yourself, /biz/?
Do you feel anxious and scared out of your wits when your bank account is low on funds?
Well... we all know that feel, bro.
Get in here.
>>1430028
>Well... we all know that feel, bro.
No we don't, speak for yourself
>>1430028
I need to have insanely large amounts of capital or else my life is meaningless ;(
Once I get this website up and running I will impress girls by being an internet entrepreneur. There is this redheaded girl that works at Toys R Us, and after my website has 1,000 members I will talk to her and she will think I'm the shit. My girlfriend doesn't think I'm the shit. But this redheaded girl will. And I'll have sex with her hopefully. And then I wouldn't feel inadequate deep down inside. And then maybe I wouldn't feel this empty hole inside me.
>>1430028
It's kinda wierd
When I was a jobless NEET who lived in a dormitory where I would be kicked out soon and had to ask my mother for money to pay the rent and I smoked the rest, I was pretty happy, but super fucking anxious and also depressed all the time
Now that I have things in order, own apartment, own car, earn good money, I have zero anxiety and ddepression, but I feel less happy.
But maybe that is just the responsibilities that pile up that make you more "serious".
Still, while I look very fondly back on my days in haze, I vastly prefer to have the money to do whatever the fuck I want, go on vacations abroad when I have vacations (European), fix my car if neccecary, buy food without worrying about the costs, etc etc etc
Money might not bring you happiness, but being poor is depressive as fuck.
Where can I find other intelligent avenues for discussion about business topics.
Forums,groups etc.
Currently using Black Hat World and Facebook Groups but those get pretty bland after a while, used to use /biz/ a lot but after a while it gets tiresome so I tend to disperse my time onto other sites.
Thanks.
>>1430002
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums
>>1430025
Thanks a lot. Will look into this.
>>1430002
Good question, I'm sick of the >>>/trash/ that is /biz/.
Ok /biz/ over these past couple of months I have read every single book in pic related.
Now what?
>>1430000
If after reading so many books you still need advice from /biz/ I think you better just get a job at McDonalds.
Nice quads btw
>>1430000
>The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Those aren't /biz/ books and you didn't read them.
Read them better
Any ways to make $$$ off of credit card cash back offers? You can't balance transfer (as far as I know) between cards and get cash back, and anything else you do will probably be more expensive than the 1-2% you earn.
>>1429980
I had a friend who took cash advances from a card and dumped them in a CD, because the first year was interest free.
But obviously this was back when CD's were actually worth a shit.
>>1429988
He paid it back from the CD?
>>1429980
>balance transfer
>you have an exsisting balance
>you should probably not be using a credit card
>recently get hired at a club
>all I do is pick up glasses, take out trash, and sweep/mop
>one day find check on the floor made out to some random name
>ask customers nearby if they dropped it they all say no
>I even tried to find the person whose name was on the check to no avail
>end up giving it to my manager
Could I have stolen it? As in, if I took it and cashed it in, would there be anyway for the rightful owner to find me or know it was me?
>>1429943
>Made out to some random name
If you wrote the name into your name, the person writing the check could have easily chargebacked you and had the police investigate what was happening. You could have gone to jail.
>>1429943
>Could I have stolen it?
If you have to ask, then you obviously couldn't. Your "best" option might have been to sell the check to someone who knows what to do with it, but you probably don't have that kind of trusted business contacts either.
tl;dr: No, you couldn't.
No, because that's wrong.
>apply for job
>go to interview, guy says to come on monday to talk about the contract
>find out bad shit about firm (probably why they called me even though I was bad and why they were overly/fake nice)
>mail interviewer that I'm not interested anymore
>mails me back asking why
what do?
>>1429906
Say you found another job opportunity or don't reply at all. Why is this so difficult?
>>1429912
he has my number so he will probably call and insist I join his shit firm nobody wants to work for. I'm too anxious for this stuff
he could also harass me
>>1429906
>not researching the company before you even apply
obviously ETC is going to pump again in a few days
when and where should I buy back?
It's very low right now. It wouldn't be a bad time
Im buying more and provided further backup buy orders incase of another dump. Onward to 0.01 !
For Lord Charles!
i didn't see this thread
>>1428848
s-sorry guise
>mfw I bought ETC at 490k
we got shilled hard bro
>>1429824
>listening to what people on /biz/ say
>ever
>>1429770
>mfw I only use risky "hold it till you double or triple it" methods instead of just riding the waves(mini p&d's) for some comfy and secure +10%, +20%, +30% gains.
I never had anyone teach me how to flip cryptos. /biz/ never taught me ;_;, they just said buy and hype and without any directions and helpful guides.
Is it okay to treat yourself now and again?
I have lived frugally fr the last year. I have saved up an £18,000 house dposit and this month brough home £3000 after tax for ovetime etc.
I feel like I want to splash out on something and have priced up a gaming PC. I feel its important to now and again treat yourself to feel like a reward, but for some reason I feel guilty about doing so.
What do you guys think? Do it or don't?
>>1429712
You're guilty feeling because it's a purchase that just enables you to sit at a computer and play video games. You may play with IRL friends or not but the concept is the same. There's is also the fact that it'll depreciate or is a rather bad monetary investment. I keep wanting to upgrade my computer too but I realize it'd be spent better elsewhere maybe in the near future on other items or emergencies.
If the funzies outweigh that though fug it :D.
>>1429712
>Is it okay to treat yourself now and again?
Yes
>I feel guilty about doing so
I know that feel. For me the more I have the more guilty I feel. It's like an illness. Side effect is I never worry about money so it has it's benefits.
>>1429712
>this month brough home £3000 after tax
what do you do?
/biz/, how do you go from NEET to success?
>>1429703
You get a job first, any job
If you can afford to NEET it up, you are successful.
>>1429708
Being a neet is temporary and depressing though, it doesn't last long.
What happens when you doubt your new God aka Bitcoin? That he proves you wrong time after time after time.
Leave your copes below.
been telling everyone to buy when it was $520.. now its $600 again
when will nocoiners ever learn? I guess they are allergic to money
>>1429693
Nocoiners, much like manlets, will never learn.
>>1429700
coinbase shat itself during the selloff, by the time it stopped BTC was already back to ~550
Can you even make it with 5'9"
No too short just end it now
I'm 5'11 and I regularly hear girls laughing as I walk by them and a few times the interviewer asked my height "just to know" and then stifled back laughter. I never got hired
>>1429687
Just what i thought. Thanks man.
>>1429685
I work at a bulge bracket bank in IB
I'm 5'10", and I'm easily one of the shortest guys in my department, everyone here is 6'2"+
How the fuck do I buy corporate bonds at the retail level?
>>1429630
i know its an otc market, but what broker will let me buy/browse them?
>>1429630
what's your account size?
>>1429696
a lot of brokers will sell you specific bonds in their inventory. no one is going to have every bond you might want, and you definitely get raped on them buying them at the retail level.
bonds normally don't have explicit commissions, the broker just adjusts the price up or down. at the retail level, the broker will probably charge you a commission and fuck you on the price.
What would be the legality of crowdfunding yourself from a private web-page?
The reason I want to do it privately is so that I can "salt the tip jar" by starting the counter with a middling figure and doing some astroturfing.
It's for an idealistic innovative product of some kind, the nature of which has yet to be determined.
But bullshit similar to Theranos's revolutionary fingerprick home blood test, or the Raspberry Pi for third world computing (the bullshit being that only 1st world nerds buy them.)
What are your thoughts, /biz/?
Do crowdfunding sites take any money if you don't reach your target? If so why not just put up the money yourself to get it to that middling level, but do it under a pseudonym?
This is why it's important to get people passionate and willing to invest before you put it public, if your goal is 10k, and 10 of your friends each chip in $100, you're 10% of the way there.
And because it's something they believe in, they don't feel like it's charity, because they're getting something out of it.
Fail that, have you considered not going the crowdfunding route and starting up an organisation, registering it with the government for the purposes of developing this idea: you'll probably be able to take donations all the same, do it outside of the regular websites, but most importantly enjoy tax exemptions a business wouldn't?
>I have literally no idea, just trying to help
>>1429651
I like the organisation idea.
But this is going to be a pretty ghetto arrangement till I raise capital. I live on a razor's-edge budget as it is.
Can't you make your own popular crowdfunding platform like Indiegogo? It won't be as great as Kickstarter, but still.