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Following in the footsteps of Following the Trend

Posted on November 26, 2015 by admin

I recently read the book “Following the Trend” by Andreas Clenow.  It gives explicit details about how to construct a trend following trading strategy on futures using simple rules, and explores in some depth the performance over a wide variety of asset … Continue reading →

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Learning R – a quick route to misery

Posted on November 25, 2015 by admin

I’ve started to re-use R recently for a project that I’ll blog about soon, having only briefly used it before in an academic project.  It’s very powerful, and once you know what you’re doing can be used to manipulate data … Continue reading →

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Hello world

Posted on November 19, 2015 by admin

This is a coding blog to explore themes with no particular connection beyond my own interest.  With a professional background as a C++, C# and Python programmer of financial risk systems there will be bias towards financial technology, but I hope to touch … Continue reading →

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