Lawrence Chan's Blog, page 38
October 29, 2017
Busy Schedule Ahead
It has been weeks of chaos so far in the development front on deploying my trading models. Unforeseen troubles in live trading of the models forced us to twist our code to handle all kinds of issues like sudden disconnect from brokerage server. Unlike co-location server based solutions, we have now proven retail level client …
October 7, 2017
Steve Maxwell: How to Exercise
This is a clip from a long interview of Steve Maxwell at the YouTube channel London Real. As an expert in training all kinds of athletes, his wisdom on exercise is very interesting. I agree with him that we should not over do exercise if our goal is to stay fit only. You can find …
September 27, 2017
My Journey to Fully Automate My Trading: AI vs. KISS
The latest round of buzz about AI (Artificial Intelligence), particularly the new meme Machine Learning, has triggered many talks on its applications in trading and investing. It is very interesting how it suddenly becomes the latest holy grail in trading. Is it really that much better? Not necessary. What AI is Good at AI is …
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September 23, 2017
3 Weeks of No Exercise and Sleep Deprivation
Last few weeks I have to travel far frequently to take care of things in remote areas. My daily routine was totally disrupted. Cannot exercise when there was not even enough time to sleep. Now that things settled down, I learn some important effects on my health that is very useful. First, when I finally …
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September 9, 2017
Sleeping is a Skill
My late girlfriend used to stay awake most of the nights doing all kinds of things. When she became so tired she would sleep for just couple of hours and start the next day all energized. Those who do not know her would think that she must have slept well the night before. Little did …
August 27, 2017
Better Time Management, Back to Content Curation and the Big Secret Projects
Over the past several weeks, I have reorganized many things that I do into tasks delegated to either my team or contracted outside companies. The goal is to further reduce the amount of time I spend on managing the websites and day to day responsibilities in running these sites and services. I think I have …
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August 19, 2017
Soy Sauce: It Can Be the Reason You are Bloated
Many people use soy sauce in their cooking and at the dining table without thinking much about it. It is so common in Asian cuisines that it is assumed to be safe for everything. Well, it is not. Soy sauce is a fermented product. We know very well from Chinese medical point of view that …
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August 11, 2017
Server Maintenance This Weekend Aug 12
Last week this site was down due to hosting company had a problem with their data centre in the East Coast. I could not even post onto the site. I still find the access to the site not stable but it is in the hands of the hosting company so all I can do is …
July 29, 2017
Post Birthday Thoughts
Last week was my birthday. I received quite a number of messages wishing me well. One of them stands out, however, because it is not one of those at all. It stands out also because of who wrote it – my mother. Sharing it here because it is a classic example of the fusion of …
July 28, 2017
Trading Product Reviews Have a New Home
The moving of the trading product reviews from DaytradingBias.com to EssenceofTrading.com is now completed. It took a while because the rating system has to be replaced and the formatting of the posts have to be manually revised. Anyway it is now done so we are going to proceed with the next step of the revision …
