Free Backtesting Website

A couple weeks ago came across this free cloud based backtesting service, https://www.quantopian.com Here’s a sample code of a portfolio which I’m running that is long 60% QQQ (large cap US tech), short 30% foreign markets and short 10% small caps: def initialize(context): set_symbol_lookup_date(‘2010-1-1’) context.stocks = symbols(‘qqq’, ‘veu’, ‘iwm’, ‘eem’, ‘iwm’) def handle_data(context, data): #… Continue reading Free Backtesting Website

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Philosophy

The left, including affirmative action’s own astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, dismisses philosophy as useless. In my post of most and least respected majors, I list philosophy as being useful, along with STEM. On the surface, philosophy may seem useless, or at least devoid of any practical applications. You cannot build a bridge with philosophy, nor… Continue reading Neil deGrasse Tyson and Philosophy

Facebook Stock is Going Higher

As Facebook stock makes another record high (in agreement with my predictions) Facebook is now a $200 billion company, on its way to being worth a trillion by the end of the decade. The left, including the Robert Shiller, sees everything as a bubble or crisis waiting to happen, such as comparing Facebook to Myspace,… Continue reading Facebook Stock is Going Higher

The Daily View : A Nation or Crybabies and Why Airlines are a Good Investment

With the exception of the midterms riffraff, we’re still in a slow news zone, especially that Ebola is fading (so much for those bogus CDC predictions of ‘millions dead’ or the ‘we are doomed’ rhetoric from talk radio and liberal media). With the S&P 500 up 70 points in 3 days, stocks are back in… Continue reading The Daily View : A Nation or Crybabies and Why Airlines are a Good Investment

Anti-Democracy, Part 2

Marc Andreessen is right: I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses. I think the founding fathers had lived under effective ­government, and it was called King George, and they did not like it. I mean, they knew what an autocratic government was like. And so they… Continue reading Anti-Democracy, Part 2