Hacker News with Generative AI: Trading

Zack: A Simple Backtesting Engine in Zig (github.com/zerotech-studio)
Welcome to Zack! This project is a lightweight yet powerful backtesting engine for trading strategies, written entirely in Zig ⚡. It allows you to test your trading ideas against historical market data to see how they might have performed.

Programming, Trading, Backtesting, Zig

85 points by sksxihve 9 days ago | 8 comments

Nvidia, Export Controls and the Trump Team's Art of Trading on Insider Knowledge (dataandpolitics.net)
A perfectly timed Nvidia put trade preceded Trump’s export controls by hours—and paid off by over 600%. In a month already shadowed by suspicious options activity, this one raises new questions.

Nvidia, Politics, Trading, Insider Knowledge, Export Controls

3 points by mdp2021 10 days ago | 1 comments

How I use audio journaling and AI to improve my trading decisions (fractiz.com)
Tired of trading journals you never finish? Try audio and video journaling with NotebookLM (AI) summaries for deeper insights, faster reviews, and less burnout.

Trading, Artificial Intelligence, Audio Journaling, Financial Analysis

76 points by anupshinde 12 days ago | 18 comments

Gutsy Traders Make $1.5B Triple-Leveraged Bet on Nasdaq 100 (bloomberg.com)

Finance, Investments, Nasdaq 100, Trading

21 points by paulpauper 17 days ago | 7 comments

TradingView's "€1/month" plan became €59.95 with no warning – refunded only afte (medium.com)
In February 2025, I accepted what looked like a harmless TradingView promotion: Premium Plan for €1/month.

Trading, Finance, Consumer Rights, Pricing, Software

5 points by zigfrid 18 days ago | 0 comments

Arbitrage and equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 economy (2012) (archive.org)
Arbitrage is the holy grail of every trader. The dream of buying low and selling high (for this is what arbitrage is all about) is the driver of all commerce but also its own worst enemy: for as everyone is trying to pursue it, the potential for arbitrage disappears. And when it does disappear totally, we have equilibrium (the holy grail of the economists).

Economics, Game Theory, Trading, Video Games

42 points by iamacyborg 20 days ago | 3 comments

Darker Than a Dark Pool? Welcome to Wall Street's 'Private Rooms' (bloomberg.com)
Wall Street’s infamous dark pools are getting even darker.

Finance, Wall Street, Trading, Dark Pools

18 points by petethomas 40 days ago | 10 comments

Nasdaq halts high-speed trading service after regulatory pressure (ft.com)

Financial Markets, Regulation, Technology, Trading

29 points by marban 46 days ago | 13 comments

Options traders are bracing for a stock-market crash (marketwatch.com)
Options traders are bracing for a looming stock-market crash, the latest data from Cboe Global Markets show.

Finance, Stock Market, Trading

32 points by hjjkjhkj 54 days ago | 38 comments

Jane Street's Figgie card game (figgie.com)
Jane Street's fast-paced Figgie game simulates exciting elements of markets and trading. At Jane Street, Figgie is a game we teach and also one we really enjoy playing.

Games, Finance, Trading

476 points by eamag 70 days ago | 117 comments

Wall Street Enters Darker Age with Most Stock Trading Now Hidden (bloomberg.com)
Here’s a surprising new fact about the world’s largest and most-liquid public equity market: Most of the activity on it isn’t public anymore.

Finance, Wall Street, Stock Market, Trading

26 points by petethomas 92 days ago | 4 comments

Market Structure Primer (2019) (prooftrading.com)
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the US equity trading landscape. It started as an onboarding document to help new hires who aren't as well versed in market structure. It can be read start to finish in order, or you can jump around. The visual Life Cycle of an Order also provides a handy view of the various events and entities involved in the process of a trade - from conception to completion.

Finance, Market Structure, Trading

96 points by firloop 108 days ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading (snagra.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Trading, Stock Market

270 points by sunnynagra 116 days ago | 204 comments

Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform (questdb.io)

Trading, Game Development, Finance, Hardware, Retro Gaming

166 points by bluestreak 166 days ago | 24 comments

Jump Trading, Virtu and the 'hidden optical fibre cable' under an Ohio field (ft.com)

Financial Markets, Trading, Technology, Infrastructure

61 points by throwaway2037 180 days ago | 73 comments

296,163 crypto traders have been liquidated in the last 24 hours (twitter.com)