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Ask HN: A good trading community to discuss infrastructure, strategies and quant

3 points by maverhick ↗ HN
I've been looking to find good communities to discuss trading infrastructure for stocks, options and even crypto. But I can't seem to find ones where are genuinely helpful or even useful discussions. I do get that no one wants to talk strategies easily, but it would be good to at least discuss some of them with others. I tried reddit and their algotrading and related communities aren't really friendly or even useful. I am looking for more advanced communities.

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JSDevOps
I've noticed that things have really taken a turn for the worse in the last few years. I used to have a decent following on Reddit where I’d often help out, comment, and even share a lot of open-source code. But it all changed when someone started falsely reporting my work as a scam. It got so bad that I ended up getting banned. There was even this one person accusing me of stealing money from accounts with my code, and I was like, "It's open source! How could I even do that?" But they didn’t care or just didn’t get it. First, I got a three-day suspension, and then, just like that—banned for no reason.

The crypto world is crawling with scammers, unfortunately. But I’ve been writing, designing, and running trading algorithms for over a decade now, and I still open-source some of my work on GitHub. The frustrating part is that I don’t really have much of a community to connect with anymore.

The thing is, trading algorithms are highly specialized. They take time to develop and fine-tune. But most people just want quick fixes, fast answers, and hope to make billions overnight. Tensions are high when people lose a lot, especially when they're overleveraged. For me, though, it's always been about the challenge and the fun of it.

I’ve managed to find a few people I chat with on a personal level, but in terms of a real community? Not so much. When you mention an "advanced community," what exactly do you mean? If you're already a trader and have a solid understanding, you might want to try checking out r/quant.

maverhick
Thanks, this is quite bang on. Any good stuff is getting banned/archived/trolled and I am really missing on talking to people about the technicalities of some of the trading systems that I am building. When I mentioned an 'advanced community', I meant discussing with devs their experience in working with tick data, data storage, in memory processing. Qs like can they ingest tick data for a few thousand symbols and what kind of latencies exist in converting to candle sticks, what is the the stack that they trade using. Technicalities in risk management, handling of errors, directional, non directional strategies and in-depth conversations on almost all of the above topics and more
JSDevOps
Do you work in the business by any chance?
maverhick
Nope, an individual who has built most of these things during their free time. I do spend a lot of my time trading and that helps me evolve strategies from a traders perspective and not a 'quant's' perspective
gukov
Curious to see the GitHub. Can you share it?
paulpauper
There is

reddit.com/r/quant

many of these strategies are proprietary , so you can understand how people are cagey about discussing this stuff.