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fattyfatfat.com is a personal blog at fattyfatfat.com about economics and business. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2008–2009first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Posts about building an automated day trader to generate income and about technical analysis, including moving-average crossover strategies. The comments appear to be by the author and do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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  1. And lastly: I wrote a lot of that just as I was figuring things out, so I don't know how much of that I still stand by. But this morning, I wrote the one thing that I'd recommend to anyone who is interested in this sort of thing. http://fattyfatfat.com/2008/12/moving-average-crossover-theo...

    Comment linking /2008/12/moving-average-crossover-theory/

    on “Using an automated day trader to generate income”
  2. Submitted Using an automated day trader to generate income as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  3. http://fattyfatfat.com/2008/10/automated-day-trader-most-tec... I still stand by my above claim that Tech Analysis (and especially LONG term trending) has no theoretical basis, except for the fact that everyone else believes in it.

    Comment linking /2008/10/automated-day-trader-most-technical-analysis-is-crap/

    on “Using an automated day trader to generate income”
  4. Submitted Thoughts About Thoughts About Autotraders as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Mob-mentality @ price of wine as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Bittersweet Trading Losses and Freedom At Last as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Lottery Tickets, Expectation, Utility, and maybe a bit about Finance as a story · 1 points

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