robot (SPX) DNA Management Techniques

Yes, this is related to trading, but no, it is not my thesis on why the Euro is going to parity. Instead, it is sort of a workshop for robot(SPX) developers on how to organize their digital DNA. As you begin to use programming as a money extraction tool on the markets, you'll soon find that organizing your implements becomes more than half the battle. I'm proposing an organization scheme for trading code that uses two free utilities: Tortoise SVN and Dropbox. At the end, I'll throw in a cool trick for using this setup to keep all your R projects organized.

Strange Music for Strange Times

I'm messing around with NetBeans, Dropbox, Tortoise SVN, C code and similar mind-bending endeavors. So it's time for some entertainment along the same vein.

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robot (SPX) = $

Not that there is anything wrong with the peasant trading method of marking up charts with targets and stop losses, but if that's all there is to trading, I'd rather open a small bakery or work as an airline pilot. Or maybe make artisan cheese with milk from my own organic cows. Extracting money from markets is fun, exciting at times and generally satisfying for what it is, but the drudgery of hearing over and over about keeping your losers small, letting winners run, managing your risk with stops ... ugh. You plan on doing this for how long again? No, for me there is just not enough there there to keep it stimulating. But once you start talking about algorithms and trading bots, now you've got my attention. Imagine a world where your little (or not so little) army of algorithmic robots are marching across the trading landscape and pillaging profits from semi-proficient chartists. Hmm, now that sounds like fun.