About & Contact
Like many engineers who have a talent for algorithm development and wonder if they could use those same programming & math skills successfully in the financial world, a few years back I began devoting my lunch hours to stock trading.
I burned my sacred lunch hours in this way because of a very seductive vision - the possibility making all my money through trading. As long as I have my laptop and an internet connection, I can work from anywhere and be my own boss - maybe even with enough free time to pursue other research areas that interest me.
No, I’m not quite there yet, not because I don’t usually beat the market indices but because with the size of my principal, I’d have to be a true Market Wizard
Since Matlab is my modeling tool for engineering work, I gravitated toward it for doing such things as charting, estimating growth rates, and simulating trading algorithms over historical stock data.
As co-workers often asked for copies of certain m-files, especially this one that downloads historical data from Yahoo, I decided to create a website to collect all of my stock market scripts and musings in one place. And if the ads bring in an extra dime, well that’s OK too. 
In August 2007, I realized that my ad hoc approach to learning about investing (reading financial bestsellers, watching CNBC, trial and error of trading algorithms) had two major drawbacks. The first was that while I could certainly pick up tips, tricks, and rules of thumb this way, I would probably never cover all topics in sufficient detail to have a well-rounded investing education.
The second drawback, was that I was spending huge amounts of time and energy learning about investing, but essentially had nothing - in a resume sense - to show for it. This could be necessary if I later decide I’d like to switch careers from engineering to investing. I therefore enrolled in a program in order to earn my Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Roughly, the CFA is to investing what the CPA is to accounting. You can read about my experiences along the way here.
I have a wide variety of interests so there are plenty of articles on other topics. I’ll post anything that I feel could be be useful, interesting, or entertaining. Enjoy!
Location
Right here in the Sunshine State
Education
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
Professional Experience
Algorithm development for high-speed wireless and wired communications
Contact
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