Lawrence Chan's Blog, page 28
June 12, 2020
TLC Weekly Update June 12, 2020
This week I finally got the chance to check out my cottage since last October. Over the past few years, it was so eventful that I can’t imagine what may have happened to the property. Several years ago, ice from the lake pushed into the shore line caused serious damages. Well, it was a really …
June 5, 2020
TLC Weekly Update June 5, 2020
It looks like I still cannot escape to my cottage this weekend. So instead of preparing for the trip, I try to be more productive and wrote two articles on trading technologies. First one comparing different hardware of their trading strategy optimization speed. And the other one about Windows 10, whether it is time to …
May 29, 2020
TLC Weekly Update May 29, 2020
My team has been working all week troubleshooting a very odd glitch affecting our real-time trading tools. We still could not identify why it happens occasionally. Very annoying but we have to get to the bottom of it. After a long hiatus from posting new technical stuff at DaytradingBias, I finally get the chance to …
May 22, 2020
TLC Weekly Update May 22, 2020
I just reviewed my online ordering pattern and I found a very disturbing trend that Amazon slowly but surely taken over almost all of my online orders. I used to order items of specific categories from specialty shops. Amazon is my default option to order computer related items only, like a replacement hard drive or …
May 15, 2020
TLC Weekly Update May 15, 2020
Another roller-coaster ride with the stock market when the world is trying to re-open from lockdown. It is very interesting from an observer point of view. For many traders, however, it is a difficult week to deal with. I will be busy this weekend upgrading daytradingbias.com to support SSL connection. Significant changes to everything within …
May 8, 2020
TLC Weekly Update May 8, 2020
A busy week of catching up with emails, closing deals and writing scripts for my video lessons. Been a productive week except that I can’t exercise much due to shoulder pain. The pain had finally subsided so I guess I can get back to training slowly. We are looking at potential re-opening soon in US …
May 1, 2020
TLC Weekly Update May 1, 2020
After weeks of struggle fending off hackers and crazy crawler robots on daytradingbias website, my team finally got the necessary hardware upgrades needed to deal with them for good. A week of smooth running without server overloading. I still don’t know why the f$#k that people want to hack daytradingbias. Seriously it is just a …
April 24, 2020
TLC Weekly Update April 24, 2020
Another week of life under lock-down here in Toronto. Yet everything are getting done as more people adapted to using the technologies they avoided in the past ten years. I now have meetings with lawyers who insisted to meet face to face in the past with zoom. e-Signing documents with people who have the misunderstanding …
April 17, 2020
TLC Weekly Update April 17, 2020
An article on how these ancient computer systems are still in use today by the governments that leads to the mess we are seeing during this crisis. I know about this all along as I have friends who are expert in these old programming languages that are very well paid to maintain these systems. The …
April 10, 2020
TLC Weekly Update April 10, 2020
Easter Friday is a US market holiday. So, here I am taking my time to write this while drinking my morning coffee. Another week of extreme market actions with US Federal Reserve going all-in with yet one more $2.3 Trillion bailout program on Thursday. We all know the claim that it is done to support …
