This is kind of a rant. But it is one that is justified, I think. Over the past two weeks we have been doing lots of swapping, switching and modifying. Our website had to move hosts for a number of reasons. And we embarked in one of the most convoluted exercises that I would’ve… Read more »
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Vira for Android
And we are out! Today has been the release of Vira Finance for Android. It has been a long journey to get here. Up to this point we had been an iOS only application. But now things have scaled. We are also working on a suite of new features that we think will really complement… Read more »
In the words of Neo: ‘Upgrades’
Yes, it is that time of the cycle again. The time where we small application owners have to do the rounds and accommodate the ‘planned obsolescence’ regimes of the great big ones. Our app crashed a couple of weeks ago, and we have been working on a solution pronto! So Viracocha will be back –… Read more »
Viracocha 1.2.1 – out now
We have a new upgrade that fixed the API issue that was giving us all sorts of dramas when retrieving share information. Now it is out and ready to go. Thanks for the feedback and the patience.
The crazy ride, and Apple
Hi, We have experienced some really crazy data behaviour over the past three weeks or so. Some of the shares, specially the Australian ones, were showing data that was just off. We were monitoring this closely and did testing on our end, but it was the raw data coming from our source. And then, after… Read more »
On equilibrium
I had an interesting conversation with a chap that is into Artificial Neural Networks. His goal is to design the ultimate ANN for share trading. There are, as you may know, a great deal of solutions already for trading in microscopic time intervals, trying to train machines to do it. Is is a real strategy… Read more »
Stat test part 2. The upside potential
Ok, lets re-visit the subject of the statistical proof ‘or tests’ that we did when developing our method. Like I have mentioned before, I am sometimes asked to provide proof of the certainty of Viracocha. Well I don’t possess a crystal ball, and I am prepared to argue that nobody else does. But what we… Read more »
Kant and the -not-science of Economics
“Whether someone’s treatment of the cognitions pertaining to reason does or does not follow the secure path of a science -this we can soon judge from the result. If, after many preparations and arrangements have been made, the treatment falters as soon as it turns to its purpose, or if, in order to reach that… Read more »
The statistical test, well… one of them.
Yes, I am aware of what Disraeli said about stats. But the beauty on this particular testing protocol is that it has nothing to do with all the other tests that I have seen around in the financial world. This one is coming from what I consider to be the basis of the statistical testing:… Read more »
The 10 principles for a Black Swan proof world
This post is about ten principles brought in by an author, professor and trader called Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Back in 2009 thereabouts he wrote a book called The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable. And here are the summaries of the 10 principles he cogitated. I think they still hold a lot of value… Read more »