Lawrence Chan's Blog, page 35
April 19, 2019
DaytradingBias was Brute Force Attacked and Luckily Survived
Last two weeks DaytradingBias.com experienced multiple incidents of database issues causing the site not reachable at times and also database corruptions. Due to the fact that we were doing major updates to the site, we thought it was probably related to the changes we made. I was forced to restore the site to a backup …
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DaytradingBias was Brutal Force Attacked and Luckily Survived
Last two weeks DaytradingBias.com experienced multiple incidents of database issues causing the site not reachable at times and also database corruptions. Due to the fact that we were doing major updates to the site, we thought it was probably related to the changes we made. I was forced to restore the site to a backup …
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April 15, 2019
My Journey to Fully Automate My Trading: Radical Transparency
One principle I’ve decided to follow in documenting this journey is Ray Dalio’s radical transparency. To be honest, radical transparency may not be such a good idea for many organizations or businesses. For trading and investing, however, it is a very interest model that can root out, if not all, majority of the human weaknesses, …
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April 12, 2019
FAQ: My Morning Routine
For some reason people are really obsessed with morning routines lately because all these “successful” people all have their morning routines that help them conquer the world. I get the same question a lot lately so why not share it here. First, my morning routine follows a pretty fixed structure but the components for each …
March 23, 2019
My Journey to Fully Automate My Trading: What I Learned After a Month Into Fully Automated Day Trading on TradeStation
I still remember the day I launched my automated trading – sitting tight in front of the screen waiting for something to happen. And then suddenly it is already a month since the launch. Time really flies! Over this month, I actually learned quite a few interesting things that many you will find useful. TradeStation …
March 21, 2019
What Supplement I Took to Cure My Seafood Allergy
So, people want to know what supplement I took to cure my seafood allergy since I wrote about it last time. I did not put that in the blog because it may not be applicable to everyone since it was prescribed to me by the good doctor. However, for the sake of science, I will …
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March 15, 2019
My Journey to Fully Automate My Trading: Never Day Trade from Your Laptop
One extremely silly thing people do is trading from their laptops. There are so many things that can go wrong with that I seriously wonder if the motto “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst” ever come across the minds of these traders. Wireless connection can drop easily at the wrong moment – when …
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March 9, 2019
How My Lifelong Seafood Allergy Was Cured
I was allergic to certain kinds of seafood. Just some of them like lobsters and shrimps, not all of them. It has been a lifelong issue since I was a baby. Interestingly, I suppose it is now cured. It is a fascinating story to share. Being allergic to food is not a minor issue. Many …
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March 8, 2019
My Journey to Fully Automate My Trading: Your See a Hammer, I See a Doji
I conduct my research on trading strategies on multiple platforms from Excel to almost everything that I can get my hands onto. From concepts to actual strategies, it can be as simple as just several lines of code to thousand lines of code. To say the least, It is a long and tedious process that …
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March 2, 2019
My Journey to Fully Automate My Trading: Peaceful Launch of My Automated Trading on TradeStation
This past Monday, Feb 25th, I finally managed to get small part of my automated trading strategies ready for live trading on TradeStation. It was one hell of a long journey to convert my algorithms from my custom trading platforms onto a retail broker platform. I learned a lot from the process and gained incredible …
