Written by In the words of my mentor, automated trading is like a driver-less car that decides where it wants to go, whereas algorithmic trading is like a car with automatic-transmission (plus may be some other features that make it easier to go from one place to another). Specifically, automated trading solutions are responsible to identify trading [...]
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Raspberry pi – snaps from my first interaction
What is Raspberry Pi? While the technically correct answer is something else, in the words of my mentor friend, it is a new, low-cost, simplified box, that is aimed at bring computing to the masses. In the 90′s many many kids were attracted to programming with Turbo C owing to its simplicity and efficiency. The [...]
READ MORE »Adalaj ni vav – a hidden archaelogical gem of Gujarat!
This is a trip-cum-photo-report to Adalaj ni vav. On a lazy morning in Ahmedabad, we decided to do some touristy thing and a quick search on tripadvisor.com resulted in us shortlisting Adalaj ni vav as our destination – reasonably out of city to be challenging, and attractive enough to make the journey worth the effort! [...]
READ MORE »Nike+ sport band – a quick photo review!
If you do not know what is Nike+ or what a Nike+ sensor is, kindly read my previous post here. This is a quick photo review of the Nike+ Sport Band that is available in India currently. There are talks that Nike is going to launch the Nike Fuel lineup of products in India soon…but [...]
READ MORE »3x Nike+ runs in a week!!! My first!
As the champion long distance runners say, it is not the distance or the speed that matters, it’s the consistency! And I crossed a milestone in my journey to be consistent by running 3 nike+ runs in the past week! Here’s the evidence: – the graph shows the accellerated pace running that we practiced at [...]
READ MORE »FIX FAQs – Learning and Understanding the FIX protocol
This is an attempt at starting a FIX Protocol FAQs that will help beginners understand the FIX protocol, and advanced users get answers to their most common queries. Q: What is FIX? A: FIX stands for Financial Information eXchange, and is a protocol used by brokers (sell-side), investors (buy-side), exchanges, and other participants in the [...]
READ MORE »Dare to Run – book by Amit Sheth – a fond review of a running motivation book…
I have just finished reading Amit’s book “Dare to Run” and am returning to all my passions – including blogging, running and reading – with a renewed enthusiasm and commitment that Amit so very well embodies! The book – Date to Run – itself is mind-blowing, to say the least!!! From the first page on, [...]
READ MORE »My favourite photography sites…
My favourite photography websites – I turn to these for inspiration!
READ MORE »A crowded city reduces the human life value?
In a conversation with my expat manager recently, he quoted a statistics he had come across, that, on an average, 9 persons die every day in Mumbai Local trains – falling off the trains, run over by the train while crossing the tracks, etc. – and that is shocking! The numbers are shocking for us [...]
READ MORE »Complex Event Processing – what is it?
Complex Event Processing (CEP) is a non-linear way of handling incoming data, in various forms – often from multiple streams – called events, and process them in an efficient manner based on certain, generally very complex rules. Considering the ability of the CEP system to respond near real-time to a vast array of complex events [...]
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