- Unsubscribed from all bloomberg publications (I had maybe ~4 in daily digest). I find them redundant, half the good content is hidden behind a paywall, it’s verbosely delivered in paragraphs instead of bullets, and it focuses more on politics / international affairs than tech / business / software / finance.
- Supercontest. Made the leaderboard sort the EXACT same as the all-picks, except summed over all weeks and only for completed games. Before, it didn’t do the same “1 cover over 2 pushes” etc.
- Trimmed and brined 2 racks of pork spares (10lbs) and 2 racks of beef short (10lbs) for the smoker tomorrow.
- Today’s music: snow patrol.
- Bud light launching their seltzer next year:
- Doctor Sleep comes out tonight, Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining. It follows the son, Danny Torrance, who escaped the Overlook.
- Between IT, Castle Rock, and now this – I love how much mainstream attention King is getting. Been a fan for many years.
- datetime.fromtimestamp() should always be passed a timezone. Integers are naive, and must be made timezone-aware, otherwise it will have to assume. Some assume UTC, some assume the system-locale tz, you can never be sure. Be explicit instead.
- The UFC fight this saturday is in Russia. Zabit and Greg Hardy on the card.
- Logan Paul vs KSI 2 is also this saturday. Ugh.
- Resolved the 24 payment situation; it had reported confirmation but then rejected it weeks later. Paid for the past 2 months, ensured it was still on autopay with the card swapover. Dude at the front was nice, Joe.
- I’m liking the recent food changes:
- Oats and water raw instead of oat milk in morning shake.
- +Banana +Seeds for the morning for a more complete breakfast.
- Veggies raw in smoothie, rather than juiced. No waste.
- No more lab powders: whey, glutamine, etc. All natural: cinnamon, maca, etc.
- Remember it’s much easier in python3: super().__init__()
- Tradebot.
- Finished the entire framework. Now I just need to run tests to optimize. This step is crucial. Selection is easy, but overfitting is also easy.
- Another +1 for the backtrader package. Full-featured, and very well documented.
- You can add analyzers, including final sharpe ratio reports.
- Example output from my quick sma strategy on msft for ytd:
- Wow. Look how many indicators come built-in: https://www.backtrader.com/docu/indautoref/.
- RSI = relative strength index.
- Keep in mind that every single ticker would optimize around a different strategy with different parameters. You can lump markets together with decent accuracy, but things will even then change along a chronological axis. There’s no perfect approach for all situations for all time.
