Insights, tools and tips as a result of losing too much money 🐊.
- Trading for a Living [Medium] - or what it takes to go from zero to a humble hero in the markets
- Things You Learn After 1 Year of Day Trading for a Living [Medium] - or what not to do in the markets
- Real-life examples of working with the Interactive Brokers TWS API
- Join the repository here
- Inspired by the University of Alberta course
| Pattern | Category | Idea |
|---|---|---|
| Singleton | Creational | Manage multiple accounts (connections, disconnections, execution requests, orders requests, etc.) via single object and once. |
| Factory Method | Creational | Change historical data provider across all code base with a single modification. |
| Facade | Structural | Wrap complex logic with simple access point. |
| Adapter | Structural | Use standard m30 bars to create custom H4 bars in a different time zone. |
| Composite | Structural | Single option is the building block of a complex options position. |
| Proxy | Structural | Use cached data access when applicable, request and store new if none available. |
| Decorator | Structural | Extend functionality of standard request handlers. |
| Template Method | Behavioral | Use template trading flow for various asset classes. |
| Chain of Responsibility | Behavioral | Trade risk assessment via chain of validation rules. |
| State | Behavioral | Trade multiple sessions of the same market. |
| Command | Behavioral | Perform account related tasks (data, trading, risk assessment, etc.) efficiently. |
| Mediator | Behavioral | Manage portfolio exposure with different instruments. |
| Observer | Behavioral | Price alerts for various asset classes. |
| MVC | Architectural | Account management (trading controller, risk model and balance view). |
Thinking, Fast and Slow [Daniel Kahneman]
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets [Nassim Nicholas Taleb]
Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude [Mark Douglas]
Mind Over Markets: Power Trading with Market Generated Information [James F. Dalton, Eric T. Jones, Robert B. Dalton]
Trading Sardines: Lessons in the Markets from a Lifelong Trader [Linda Raschke]
Generalized task management notation.
Symbols:
Symbol Meaning ! Important + Task - Metadata/elaboration on previous line ~ Thought/idea ~~ Thought/idea in flow ~~~ Thought/idea in multi-day flow % Edge/trading idea ? Question @ Topic, can be nested (useful in the calendar) $ Performance related task/idea ^ Test & Refactoring # Bug <> Think about it / sleep on it, a coda in blocks . Relevant to this particular day (usually in the calendar) = Experiment Blocks:
- Symbols can be combined with other symbols.
- Small topic is either one line or condensed multiple lines.
- Big topic is surrounded by @ symbols and contains small topics.
- Code blocks/comments appear verbatim without any symbols.
- When in flow, elaboration hyphens can be omitted.
Examples:
!+ this is an important task - with some metadata here $& this is a performance related refactoring @ this is a big topic ~ with some ideas @ sub topic ~ with some ideas (related to the super topic) + tasks # bugs ? questions .^ and some tests to be performed today @ this is a big topic (same text as in the first symbol)
Don’t underestimate the time it takes to develop an edge [Linda Raschke]
Those who work that hard deserve their success; no apology is necessary [Victor Sperandeo]
Eclipse:
- Ctrl + Shift + Alt + l: quick search
- Shift + F2: online javadoc
JupyterLab:
- Ctrl + Shift + c: quick search
- Ctrl + f, Ctrl + g: find and iterate
- Ctrl + Shift + q: shutdown notebook
Terminal:
- Ctrl + d: exit
- Ctrl + l: clear
- man vs. info
- type instead of which
- umount -R to handle busy things
- apropos vs. whatis
- Mouse:
- selection is copy
- middle button is paste
Vim:
- selection followed by :term bash to run as a command
- ~ for case switch upper/lower
- exact search in the form /<str>
- search selected (yanked): / Ctrl + r followed by "
man:
- & search to show only matching lines
- C functions are included
git:
- @ <=> HEAD
- git rebase interactive:
- reword and fixup