Ventures of an ex indie game developer

Rewrite ready for launch

My guesstimate of the trading bot rewrite was off by 1,5 months - in the right direction! So now I have a first version running, it's tested and fairly bug-tree. I won't know how it handles actual trading until tomorrow morning though, but much of the code is copy-paste so it should be close to ok.

Well I must say that was a nice surprise. The main reason for it being so quick was that I quickly could find a sensible algorithm, which seems to make a terrific profit on 3 months worth of stock history. There also was no wiggle-room from a grand local maxima I found, which made tweaking futile. Only two nights of tweaking and 2.5 kfloc including a lot of copy-paste in the other nine. Splendid!


The old code-name was Hasselhof. The new one is Zeno. Stoic founder instead of free diva.

I can only think of two things which could go wrong now:
1.The algorithm coincidentally worked for three months of data, but won't make much profit in the future.
2.My trading bot is traced by the bank, disallowed and my account is blocked. From what I've seen of their APIs, they aren't exactly on top of shit, and I have a hard time believing they could and would do that.
3.The username+password API is deprecated and replaced with manual requirement and/or recaptcha.

None of the above seems very likely, so this may be the start of making my wallet great again. And freeing up some time for book writing and LENR research! :)

If this goes down beautifully, I'll take some well-earned "vacation" in the evening time for some days. I haven't had many such days in the last decade. Ahhh, the blissful dreams of not being under the yoke of "have to" but instead "want to!"

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