- This channel doodlechaos is so cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcBn04IyELc&feature=youtu.be. He syncs classic songs with that line rider game.
- Finance.
- Great article on algorithm trading: https://medium.com/s/story/predicting-the-stock-market-is-easier-than-you-might-think-4f1e0bc05cfe.
- As a nonprofessional trader, your best bet is to follow exactly what the smart money (professionals) are doing. Jump on their trains. You can't outsmart them, and they have a much larger influence on the market.
- Remember, the word for technology in the investment banking + hedge fund profession is FinTech.
- GDP is a fantastic predictor for success.
- ISM = institute for supply management. They publish a monthly index, based on hard data, about how the economy is trending. 50 is neutral, 0 bad, 100 good.
- If it's hovering above 50, that's good and you'll see bull growth in most markets.
- If it's increasing, no matter where it currently is, that's good and you'll see bull growth in most markets.
- If it's hovering below 50, that's bad and you'll see bear decline in most markets.
- If it's decreasing, no matter where it currently is, that's bad and you'll see bear decline in most markets.
- Therefore: Buy when ISM is below 50 but trending upward after a valley. Sell when ISM is above 50 but trending downward after a peak.
- Example report: https://www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org/ISMReport/MfgROB.cfm. This is so useful. Given the current state of slight growth but slowing rate, the advice would be to sell soon when it plateaus.
- PMI = purchasing manager's index. JPMorgan publishes this. It's including in the ISM report. Same general idea.
- There are tons of other css libraries out there for frontend besides bootstrap: bulma, spectre, tailwind, ant, foundation. They're similar: bunch of classes to help lay out and style sites. Most use flexbox for gridding like bootstrap, as well as offering many similar components and utilities. Some are pure cs, some have features that require js and offer a corresponding bundle.
- Added logos to the supercontest readme: https://github.com/brianmahlstedt/supercontest/blob/master/README.md. Took a while (annoyingly) to get the md/html rendering to jive, and I did it on master like an idiot, but it looks much better now. If ever I want to do this on another landing page, it will just be a copy-paste.
- Made walnut butter. Still good, but my least favorite of the nut butters by far.
- Alembic is written by the same guy who wrote SQLAlchemy.
