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Rob Carver
Personal blog · qoppac.blogspot.comeconomicsbusiness
Rob Carver writes This Blog is Systematic, a personal blog at qoppac.blogspot.com about economics and business. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rob Carver's blog for systematic trading and quant investing. Commenters describe him as an ex-AHL quant and point to the blog as a practical mix of code and market analysis.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Also hydromatic, automatic: "It's Geeks Enlightening" Rob Carvers blog about quant trading, investing, and economics.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/about-me.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-11
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-08
What Hacker News says?
No, there isn’t really. There is a treasure of info on that site though. I also have a CS background before I moved to the quant area. Things that might help pique your interest: - For both academic and practical problems: http://quant.stackexchange.com/ - For keeping tabs on new ideas in the blogosphere (generally average, occasionally something useful): https://quantocracy.com/ - Useful information on getting star…
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on “We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir”Submitted So you want to be a trader? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLike I said, run through a basic risk parity strategy holding SPY and an uncorrelated ETF. Calculate the beta, volatility and return over 10 - 20 years. It does beat the market continuously on a risk adjusted basis. With leverage it also beats on total returns with lower volatility and beta. Beating the market is not mysterious, it's just difficult to do it by a lot or at scale. Just because well performing portfoli…
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on “S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021”Submitted Prediction Markets and Lotteries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGood topic, would also recommend reading this guys stuff - Robert Carver, ex AHL: https://qoppac.blogspot.com/ https://twitter.com/investingidiocy https://www.systematicmoney.org/ Also has a few videos scattered around that are worth a look too.
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on “Money Machines – An Interview with an Anonymous Algorithmic Trader”Submitted Kelly criterion and choice of expectations and utility function when bet sizing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThen I can mention some recommendations (in no particular order): * https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7346602-algorithmic-t... Really dry (and thick) book, but it's comprehensive in its treatment of execution algos. This was written by a guy who worked on the sellside, so this is written in the context of receiving large orders from buyside clients and trying to execute them efficiently and with minimal market…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)”Submitted Investment Idiocy: Setup for a home based systematic trading system (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAlso well worth look at Robert Carver's material, ex HF guy: https://qoppac.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html A google will turn up plenty of videos and interviews too.
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on “Ask HN: How do you keep your programming motivation up?”I warmly recommend the book Systematic Trading by Robert Carver. [1] The perils of trading bots are explained in it. The author himself runs one for a long time. [2] In particular, the greatest risks are overtrading (so you get eaten up by fees), and overexposure (so you get eaten up by volatility). [1] - https://www.systematicmoney.org/systematic-trading [2] - https://qoppac.blogspot.com/2021/04/trading-and-investi…
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on “Show HN: Ninjabot – A fast cryptocurrency bot implemented in Go”For the curious thread-reader, here are some websites that offer ideas that might make you question whether all "timing the market" is the same and equally bad long term. - https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolios/ (one step up in activity from B&H one ETF forever) - https://allocatesmartly.com/blog/ (another step up in activity from sticking to one asset allocation that you simply rebalance periodically) - https://qo…
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on “Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?”Try this blog and book, a rare mix of practical code and market analysis, http://qoppac.blogspot.com/p/systematic-trading-start-here.h...
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on “Ask HN: Why isn't all stock trading done by algorithm?”
