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Tales from a Trading Desk
Personal blog · mdavey.wordpress.comprogramming
Tales from a Trading Desk is a personal blog at mdavey.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links it in a thread on programming skills for HFT and trading firms, as a pointer to trading-desk work. The comment does not assess the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software Engineering Noise
What Hacker News says?
for currencies / commodities zmq/java - lmax then there is forex c++ mt4 metaquotes more hardcore like cheetah-solutions fpga / hdl don't know about asic some insides but now inactive https://mdavey.wordpress.com/ there are also options / stocks and cryptocurrencies
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