09-14-2023, 12:45 PM
last friday, I spent the whole day tracking down a problem that a new feature did introduce...
it has been fixed and using it has shown that, after all, it was not helping at all...
I am about to write a version 2 using a totally new feature... yesterday and today, I have taking care of all the boilerplate code. Feature is ready. Now, it is just a matter to code the logic on top of it.
Concerning last week feature... not all is lost... It is a great functionality. In fact, I have already found another opportunity to use it somewhere else... What it really is... it is a new tool to add into my tool set.
I am confident that it will eventually by handy at some point...
Now, I have 2 thoughts about the current events...
markets are still very quiet beside the occasional jump... This is not good for trading performance...
My new strategies are still not fully reliable. They provide inconsistent results... The code keep seeing new unpredicted scenarios that result into a poor trade result... Well, this is to be expected... and everytime that I spot a new issue, it is fixed and should never happen again...
I have introduced a bunch of small regressions into the code. Again, I guess that this is a normal side-effect of developing a lot of new code... What is important is that those regressions are spotted and fixed quickly which is the case... It feels a lot like a dance... 2 steps forward... 1 step back and on and on and on... So overall, the project is progressing...
I am not confident enough yet to crank up the trading budget all the way... the performance is still too erratic but I am hopeful that I should be in position to do so very soon...
One such regression that I have witnessed yesterday is the following. I have a mean reversal strategy that should be triggered by 2 different signals...
Yesterday, 2 market orders worth close to 10 million USD to buy bitcoin has attracted my attention. This is quite an exceptional event... Well, such event should have triggered the strategy and it did not... As of now, this is still a mystery but on the bright side, the issue is now on my radar... I suspect that this thing is broken for at least a week but the system is generating so much activity that this detail did escape me...
Spotting all those issues can really be attributed to luck and I have a lot of it these days... as all the small issues comes in front of me one after the other... the way things are happening is very fluid...
all I want now, is to be able to generate a decent income from all the work that I have put into the project and it needs to happen soon...
idk why this has not happened yet... I feel like there is a part of the answer that is external. I cannot control the market conditions...
the other part of the explanation is within me... The way I manage priorities... what I decide to put in front of my attention and so on...
I still have the feeling that I am very very close to a working and profitable system...
it has been fixed and using it has shown that, after all, it was not helping at all...
I am about to write a version 2 using a totally new feature... yesterday and today, I have taking care of all the boilerplate code. Feature is ready. Now, it is just a matter to code the logic on top of it.
Concerning last week feature... not all is lost... It is a great functionality. In fact, I have already found another opportunity to use it somewhere else... What it really is... it is a new tool to add into my tool set.
I am confident that it will eventually by handy at some point...
Now, I have 2 thoughts about the current events...
markets are still very quiet beside the occasional jump... This is not good for trading performance...
My new strategies are still not fully reliable. They provide inconsistent results... The code keep seeing new unpredicted scenarios that result into a poor trade result... Well, this is to be expected... and everytime that I spot a new issue, it is fixed and should never happen again...
I have introduced a bunch of small regressions into the code. Again, I guess that this is a normal side-effect of developing a lot of new code... What is important is that those regressions are spotted and fixed quickly which is the case... It feels a lot like a dance... 2 steps forward... 1 step back and on and on and on... So overall, the project is progressing...
I am not confident enough yet to crank up the trading budget all the way... the performance is still too erratic but I am hopeful that I should be in position to do so very soon...
One such regression that I have witnessed yesterday is the following. I have a mean reversal strategy that should be triggered by 2 different signals...
Yesterday, 2 market orders worth close to 10 million USD to buy bitcoin has attracted my attention. This is quite an exceptional event... Well, such event should have triggered the strategy and it did not... As of now, this is still a mystery but on the bright side, the issue is now on my radar... I suspect that this thing is broken for at least a week but the system is generating so much activity that this detail did escape me...
Spotting all those issues can really be attributed to luck and I have a lot of it these days... as all the small issues comes in front of me one after the other... the way things are happening is very fluid...
all I want now, is to be able to generate a decent income from all the work that I have put into the project and it needs to happen soon...
idk why this has not happened yet... I feel like there is a part of the answer that is external. I cannot control the market conditions...
the other part of the explanation is within me... The way I manage priorities... what I decide to put in front of my attention and so on...
I still have the feeling that I am very very close to a working and profitable system...
