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crypto hft - usually wrong about everything

Joined November 2017
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No human will ever write code better than LLMs. Accept this fact, stop pretending, and move on.
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🤡 Payaso tengo 9 años haciendo trading.... Y creeme dices una de las payasadas más grande que existe. Si claro con un 10% de win rate puedes ser rentable. Suerte con eso
Replying to @BaseLayer365
You clearly have no idea how trading works, and you’re publicly letting your followers know.
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“If you can find traders that don’t want to trade but need to trade, those are great people to trade against.” @quant_xbt joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about building a crypto HFT business, finding repeatable edges, and adapting as competition catches up. We covered running HFT in JavaScript, trading against forced flows, exchange risk, and why even automated strategies still need human judgment. 00:00 Intro and Early Crypto Trading 05:55 Finding the First Arbitrage Edge 11:31 Running HFT in JavaScript 19:17 Finding Edge Across Exchanges 25:19 Consistent Returns and Hidden Risks 33:53 Research, Automation and In-House Data 38:14 Quant vs. Discretionary Trading 45:29 Volatility, Forced Trading and Finding Edge 51:33 Bitcoin Conviction and Why Altcoins Fail
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Software engineers these days at my job have NO idea what bits theyre flipping man. How are you supposed to understand anything if you're not looking at the instruction set and logic gate diagrams of the ALU you're working with? You're telling me you aren't writing verilog?
This is becoming a huge problem at my job. Previously you could find the author of the code (by "git blame") and ask them to explain how this thing worked, why some approach was chosen etc. Now, people who over-rely on AI have NO idea about the code they commit...
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NEW: Claude Fable 5 is only included in paid plans through June 22, after which access will move to usage credits.
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mexc offering 600% apy on usdt staking with $40m frozen in withdrawals for 20+ days. no exchange pays 600% unless they need your deposits to cover other users' exits. when stablecoin yields exceed 30% anywhere, that platform is already dead. get your funds out now.
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If you read the terms, it’s capped at 300 USDT, lasts 2 days, and is only for new users yielding about 9.86 USDT. MEXC isn’t the only one either @Bitget ran the same promo. Claiming they’re doing this due to insolvency is completely inaccurate. mexc.co/announcements/… bitget.com/support/articl…
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we should bring back guitllotine for people who use daily number to annualize stuff
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Short version — in Cliff’s fantasy world, every strategy he doesn’t like underperformed, and every strategy he likes outperformed. It’s one thing to pat yourself on the back, but patting yourself on the back a decade before you actually achieve the results takes real chutzpah.
Sorry, no hot tub in this one, just a plain old Time Machine. “2035: An Allocator Looks Back Over the Last 10 Years” LINK BELOW
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Fuck all your predictions U don’t know shit
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suck it peter. 100k by 2024
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Replying to @Rhythmtrader
Keep dreaming. Bitcoin is never going to hit $100,000!
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[🌲] BITCOIN BREAKS $100,000
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Retweet or quote tweet this if you’ve ever been de-banked because you own crypto or are in crypto! I have, multiple times, whether it’s banks refusing to open you an account because of crypto, closing your account because of crypto, etc
Guys I don't like this. Can I get names on who this happened to? Is there a huge techcrunch article about this or something
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Never put yourself in a position where you are forced to trade when you don't want to. Trade against people who are forced to trade when they don't want to.
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Limited downside. Unlimited upside. Remember this.
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Devin, build me a better Devin 🙂 Devin 2, build me a better Devin Devin 3, build me a better Devin Devin 4, rollback to Devin 3 Devin 5, rollback to Devin 3 please devin6 rollback —v3 kill -9 devin7 sudo kill -9 devin8 ^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C
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Replying to @anuatluru
one thing you learn from scrolling twitter everyday is to not take things in its absolute terms yet i see people comment assuming the op hasn’t thought about edge cases. smh
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RT @BitMEXResearch: Here is a link to the file the SEC just deleted: farside.co.uk/pdf/fg-89shlq.… Original link: sec.gov/files/rules/sro/nyse…
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Looking good @GaryGensler
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