Hi and welcome back to my blog. This is part 2 of a series where I talk about algorithms for trading bitcoin. You can read part 1 here. Last time we covered a naive market marking algorithm which suffered from adverse selection problems. Academia contains a great many papers which try to define and address [...]
Hi and welcome back to my blog! This is the first in a series of articles which describes the process of building a trading algorithm for bitcoins. All the algorithms featured will be live tested on a real bitcoin exchange and results of profitability given. I will discuss the problems with commonly used trading algorithms, [...]
Hi and welcome back to my blog! This time I'm going to talk about a trick I used on the old PS2 game '24 The Game' to save over 30% of a frame by hacking the game's monolithic entity system. The monolithic entity system You've probably all seen this design before: Entity manager, stores a [...]
Hello and welcome back to my blog! This article talks about the technical implementation details of building a watch only wallet on top of bitcoind - it's aimed at bitcoin / altcoin business owners/developers rather than individuals. Watch only Watch only wallets do not contain the private keys for the addresses they're watching, which makes [...]
Hello and welcome to my blog! This article is going to explore the question: what is a Bitcoin? Digital cash You might have heard this analogy before. In many ways bitcoins are like digital cash - they share some of the same properties: Change In a bitcoin transaction there is usually an amount of change [...]
Hi and welcome back to my blog! This is a follow up to my previous article which introduced some of the basic concepts in trading and how they related to MetaTrader 4, which I'll be using in this series of posts. Here is a link to the previous article if you've not read it already. [...]
Hi guys, I'm back with something completely different for this article! This one is about algorithmic trading; as in writing a trading algorithm which will automatically make trades on your behalf on currency exchange markets. Why algorithmic trading? "This is a games programming blog!" I hear you cry... Well up to now I have been [...]
