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The Financial Hacker
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The Financial Hacker is a personal blog at financial-hacker.com about economics and programming. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Financial Hacker for algorithmic trading and financial data posts, such as one on generating options prices from historical raw data and a note on the Yahoo historical data API shutdown.
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.
Algorithmic trading with new methods. New indicators, machine learning, and statistical analysis for financial trading and quantitative investing. We use Zorro and R for our algo trading strategies.
What Hacker News says?
Last year Yahoo shut down their API that allowed you to download historical stock price data. http://www.financial-hacker.com/bye-yahoo-and-thank-you-for-...
Comment linking /bye-yahoo-and-thank-you-for-the-fish/
on “The insane amount of backward compatibility in Google Maps”Submitted White's reality check as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis guy [1] has written a neat post on generating option data from historic raw data. Would be quite interesting to compare the results on 1-minute data compared to raw prices. It seems OK for longer holding periods, where you'd mostly look to use options as directional leverage on underlying large caps. [1]: http://www.financial-hacker.com/algorithmic-options-trading/
Comment linking /algorithmic-options-trading/
on “Show HN: A simple way to get options prices for free”Submitted Build Better Strategies Part 4: Machine Learning as a story · 1 points
HN discussion