How I Built a Startup High Frequency Trading Firm
In this technical retrospective (2011), @wkselph shares practical architectural lessons learned from running, scaling, or migrating production software under lean constraints.
HN engineers debated the tradeoffs between cloud convenience and raw server economics, database indexing strategies, and resisting premature architectural complexity.
The going out of business part wil be quiet interesting, from the first post it does sound like the business conditions have changed. Would it still be possible to get something like this off the ground today or was he fortunate enough to get in before HFT got such players employing the best of the best?
I think HFT is quite hard and challenging for individuals. I won't feel comfortable trading huge amounts of money that can disappear in a second because of an algo mistake.
I'm looking for some tutorials and may be strategies to make money from Forex. Anyone know a good blog or book?
Yeah, this doesn't smell right. There are two posts on the blog as of my reading. Neither has much content and they do not sound like someone who has actually been through this. This does not sound like someone who is really looking to share information. It is too superficial.
the posting really doesn't have much meat. pretty vague, not that much specific information. i was hoping for something a little more in depth...
does this blog remind anyone else of one of those "how to make money fast at home" advertising thingies you see in pop ups?
The idea is great but the quality of the posts lacks until now. I just hope, you can improve that over time. It really must get more from guessing and ideas to concrete models supported with diagrams, further readings and maybe code where appropriate.
I've added another post, this one very in depth and technical on how to build a limit order book.
http://howtohft.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-build-fast-limit-order-book.html