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Best alternative development stack for R with Hadoop? Forget MYSQL? Cassandra and Java listeners for market tick data

Best alternative development stack for R with Hadoop? Forget MYSQL? Cassandra and Java listeners for market tick data After reading about the limitation of MYSQL and how expensive it can get, I decided to take chance on Cassandra. One big reason there is a RCassandra package within CRAN so yippee for that. Also, the install does not look hard and better yet, you can integrate it with Hadoop. Yipee for that! Also, Cassandra may be faster for writing than HBase which was part of the RHadoop offering so boo to that. Also, I plan to have to some Java listeners to my market data to populate the Cassandra database. This stack may work so let’s cross my fingers.  Here are my links that got me thinking this way: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4884967/hadoop-hbase-hdfs-vs-mysql-or-postgres-loads-of-independent-structured-d http://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/hbase-vs-cassandra-why-we-moved/ http://blog.milford.io/2010/06/installing-apache-cassandra-on-centos/ This above install of Cassandra appears to work with a few tricks as running as root but does work and installed fine. http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.7/map_reduce/hadoop_mr http://code.google.com/p/cassandra-java-client/ The last 2 links  I question but the Cassandra install may be worth doing but integrating with Hadoop could be a challenge. I also hope the RCassandra works to.    

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Best tutorial to install Hadoop onto Ubuntu Desktop Linux

View CommentsWritten on May 14th, 2012 by caustic
Categories: Quant Development
Best tutorial to install Hadoop onto Ubuntu Desktop Linux? http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/ I may question this as my shh localhost fails. The diagnosis part is useless. This may better to get around this ssh issue. This can be confirmed for better ssh and key configuration. http://jasperpeilee.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/setup-hadoop-on-ubuntu-11-04-64-bit/

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Any Recommendations on Cost Effective Data Feeds & Best Broker API for quant development?

Any Recommendations on Cost Effective Data Feeds & Best Broker API for quant development?   Does anyone have any recommendations on cost-effective data feeds? I am working on automated trading strategy that requires pricing updates 3 times a day for stocks, options and a few indices (rates & equities). Additionally, which broker has the best API. Right now I'm strongly leaning toward Interactive Brokers but welcome any recommendations. ==I would recommend IB too. Their API can be programmed in a fair few languages, execution cost is one of the best.  

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This Koder App for Apple Ipad looks the best programming source code editor for Microsoft .NET C#, Matlab, and Java

This Koder App for Apple Ipad looks the best programming source code editor for Microsoft .NET C#, Matlab, and Java This coding editor app looks killer for the Ipad http://www.koderapp.com/ Compared to Android, I am quite surprised there is very little choice but this one looks solid and cheap.

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Who is the best hedge fund manager out there today?

View CommentsWritten on March 23rd, 2012 by caustic
Categories: Hedge Fund
Who is the best hedge fund manager out there today? An interesting juxtaposition emerges when viewing Ray Dalio and John Paulson's returns in 2011. Ray Dalio made his clients $13.8 billion in 2011 while John Paulson lost $10 billion for his investors during the same time period. Just a year or two ago, Paulson was considered the king of the hedge fund industry after he shorted sub-prime mortgages. http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2012/02/ray-dalio-and-john-paulson.html Who do you think is the best hedge fund manager out there? Paulson? Dalio? Cohen? Tepper? Soros? A lesser-known name? Let's get a good discussion going on who have been the managers with the most innovative strategies and best returns in recent years. Ray Dalio and John Paulson richard-wilson.blogspot.com An interesting juxtaposition emerges when viewing Ray Dalio and John Paulson's returns in 2011. Ray Dalio made his clients $13.8 billion in 2011 while John Paulson lost $10 billion for his investors during the same time period.... --   When I think best managers, I think "what have you done for me lately?" I also think about returns on a net and % basis as most of these larger funds are simply managers mangaging their own capital...its tough to look at total topline return in a numerical/gross sense....I located a list of current advisors beating the benchmarks by a longshot in 2011 and 1Q12 www.hedgefunddaddy.com --   I would say James Simons ( even though he stepped down)  

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The future of the world economics especially America from the best hedge fund manager: Ray Dalio of Bridgewater interview

The future of the world economics especially America from the best hedge fund manager: Ray Dalio of Bridgewater interview http://buttonwood.economist.com/post/18847460014/leading-indicator

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Who is the best hedge fund manager out there today?

View CommentsWritten on March 8th, 2012 by caustic
Categories: Hedge Fund

Who is the best hedge fund manager out there today?

An interesting juxtaposition emerges when viewing Ray Dalio and John Paulson's returns in 2011. Ray Dalio made his clients $13.8 billion in 2011 while John Paulson lost $10 billion for his investors during the same time period. Just a year or two ago, Paulson was considered the king of the hedge fund industry after he shorted sub-prime mortgages. http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2012/02/ray-dalio-and-john-paulson.html Who do you think is the best hedge fund manager out there? Paulson? Dalio? Cohen? Tepper? Soros? A lesser-known name? Let's get a good discussion going on who have been the managers with the most innovative strategies and best returns in recent years. --

Ray Dalop and John Paulson

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An interesting juxtaposition emerges when viewing Ray Dalio and John Paulson's returns in 2011. Ray Dalio made his clients $13.8 billion in 2011 while John Paulson lost $10 billion for his investors during the same time period....   -- When I think best managers, I think "what have you done for me lately?" I also think about returns on a net and % basis as most of these larger funds are simply managers mangaging their own capital...its tough to look at total topline return in a numerical/gross sense....I located a list of current advisors beating the benchmarks by a longshot in 2011 and 1Q12 www.hedgefunddaddy.com Happy investing    

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Youtube video: Is it fundamental analysis, quant analysis, or technical analysis for best trading performance

Youtube video: Is it fundamental analysis, quant analysis, or technical analysis for best trading performance

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Who is the best broker -neutral ??

View CommentsWritten on February 14th, 2012 by caustic
Categories: Stock News and Tips
Who is the best broker -neutral ?? thank you all ...   == dukascopy, fxcm, oanda   == For which asset class?   == mainly equities    

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Here is my most recent and best reading list for learning or enhancing HFT trading knowledge for quant development

Here is my most recent and best reading list for learning or enhancing HFT trading knowledge for quant development Just read and I personally rave about: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Trading-DMA-introduction-strategies/dp/0956399207/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327329939&sr=1-1 Brand new to do but looks very advanced on the math side: http://www.lulu.com/product/hardcover/advances-in-high-frequency-strategies/18823205# Still to re-read: http://www.amazon.com/High-Frequency-Trading-Practical-Algorithmic-Strategies/dp/0470563761 Ernest Chan http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Trading-Build-Algorithmic-Business/dp/0470284889/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1    

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