I've been blogging on Wordpress since 2007, but very infrequently, maybe somewhat due to the workflow and platform. For many years now, most of the interesting content I create is in Jupyter notebooks (certainly the more relevant content to my work these days). I wanted a way to integrate this content into my blog, but realized that not all of the legacy content has aged well and a notebook workflow using the current setup would likely be cumbersome.

I've used nbviewer to make web accessible versions of notebooks in the past, for example:

• Intro to Python for Financial Market Data …

I was interviewed for the February issue of the Striker Report.

Developer/CTA Interview

Chris Degiere, Founder of Trading Technicians

• Program(s) Developed: Evolution Gold Trading System
• Interview Date: February, 2014
• Interviewed by John F. Gallwas, Founder of Striker Securities, Inc.

Chris Degiere is the founder and principal of Trading Technicians, a Silicon Valley company that develops and markets futures trading systems. Chris is a software engineer and consultant with more than 17 years of experience in the technology and financial industries and has been an active trader and system developer since 2007.

John Gallwas: Tell us a little about …

What is autotrading or broker assist trading?

Trading Technicians develops automated trading systems for commodity futures trading.

Investors seeking diversification and exposure to short-term quantitative trading in commodities can have a trade-assist broker execute our automated trading systems for you.

You grant discretion to the assisting futures broker and they execute trading signals generated by our automated trading systems directly in your account.

What are the benefits of using a trade-assist broker?

Even fully automated trading systems require dedicated time and supervision during market hours. Many investors do not have the time to make sure every trading signal is followed …

Here's some basic python code to test pelican themes and code styling:

# a comment
def say_hello(name):
    print(f'Hello {name}!')

if __name__ == "__main__":
    say_hello('Chris')  

Competitive research and traffic analysis is an important part of launching a new site or web app.

I did a quick study that uses source code search sites as the subject for comparison. Here I highlight some key metrics from these two Firefox add-ons:

• Google Toolbar
• Alexa Toolbar & Sparky

I found these sites through my delicious bookmarks, search, and the "Similar Pages" and "Related Links" features of both of the above add-ons

Here’s a really great visualization of the top level domains of the world listed by iso country code and sized by population.

Via: Bytelevel and BoingBoing.