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Best Way to Improve Rust via Quant-Dev/Trading Projects?

258 sats \ 17 comments \ @spiderman 16 Nov tech

Likely, the question belongs to some of the stackexchanges, but usually they do not look very kindly at noobs, hence I thought this territory fits the best within SN.

So, I am working as a data+machine learning engineer and very proficient in Python and some experience in C++ (computer vision projects) as well. So not a total noob in programming.

Lately, I am learning Rust mastered the basics (the syntax is a bit weird, but beginning to appreciate it) and some dose of ownership, deref coercion (the new concepts in Rust).

Now I am at a stage, where I feel I would improve more by looking at moderate sized projects, rather than spending time with syntaxes or the relatively arcane features of the language itself. And then, quant trading is an area that I have been somewhat interested in, and I have the basic knowledge as well, having developed some simple bots in Python.

So what are some good projects or resources (blog, open source projects or books) that I can find to read? Basically, I am looking for good coding standard, and moderate complexity projects that I can appreciate as a relative beginner (in both trading and in rust).

I am not signing up for a course, but if you have books or blog posts, GitHub repos etc. I will be keen to learn from them.

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77 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 16 Nov

I don't want to regurgitate for sats, but I would ask ChatGPT to recommend some crates you can look at. Ask it for crates that are more widely downloaded and start from there. Also, there is usually a Github repo called "awesome-<whatever>" for various languages and topics, where you should be able to find a starting point. Try to find crates that are actually in use for trading, not just toy examples.

I'm also learning Rust, slow going, but I enjoy it.

https://github.com/wilsonfreitas/awesome-quant

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 16 Nov

Rust is this nice critical mass point where I suspect there are great resources out there. It's something I'd probably start hacking with if I were building toy projects.

You said no courses, but you didn't say no course materials. I'd probably do something like https://rust-exercises.com/100-exercises/. Ideally I'd find some kind of repl-based progressive exercise system. It's what I did to get acquainted with clojure a many moons ago.

0 sats \ 14 replies \ @DarthCoin 16 Nov

trading

And this is what you think the world needs... You are wasting your time. Focus on something more useful.

21 sats \ 13 replies \ @spiderman OP 16 Nov

Hey dude, you hang around here as well? I thought you only go to the Bitcoin territory

And what's wrong with trading to make Sats?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ken 16 Nov

He gets high off of telling people they are wrong. Probably thinks his own farts smell good

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @spiderman OP 16 Nov

He is a funny and good natured guy, just a bit abrasive and sarcastic.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 16 Nov

You are wrong, again.

0 sats \ 9 replies \ @DarthCoin 16 Nov

what's wrong with trading to make Sats?

Totally wrong. Bitcoin is proof of work, not proof of scam... You MUST have proof of work in order to get the sats. Works hard, efficiently, productively, make something useful for the world and you will be rewarded with sats.

If you want to learn skills in programming, very good, but focus those skills in something good for the world and bitcoin adoption. Trading is not good, is just greed and scams.

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @spiderman OP 16 Nov

You are a pure ball of joy, are not you?

But how come you are hanging out in this territory? I thought you go to the bitcoin territory 🤣

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @DarthCoin 16 Nov

I am everywhere even if you do not see me. I do not post in some territories because I DO NOT WANT TO FEED THEM.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @spiderman OP 16 Nov

Okay, but regarding trading, you are wrong.

Traders, via their greed, bring price signal and liquidity to the market. The price signal is what makes price discovery possible. Pick up any book on market microstructure analysis, and you will see what I mean.

This has nothing to do with btc vs fiat. Price discovery is as important (or more) under a bitcoin standard as under fiat. You think the price of copper, zinc, oil or the proper derisking against their fluctuations are not important?

1000 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 16 Nov

No, are not important. People can thrive without them. This is a wrong assumption that these speculations have something to do with capitalism. They don't. Speculation is not producing anything, just moving around fake volume of capital. Do not get drunk with water.

There are more examples of people, producing grains and food and materials, that were fucked by these speculators on the "market"...

The price must be determined only by demand and offer, by how much a producer could produce in a year and how much demand of that product is in a year. Not by speculators that can manipulate the price market by clicking some buttons and fuck up the producers...

I will use Bitcoin even if would be 0$. The cost in $ is meaningless. Important is that somebody else is accepting it in exchange for other products and services.

Here is a good article from 2014 https://fee.org/articles/what-gave-bitcoin-its-value/

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @spiderman OP 16 Nov

Of course we can still use bitcoin. It has nothing to do with Bitcoin vs fiat.

The prices of wheat, corn, or copper can all be denominated in bitcoin, like kg per sats or something. But price discovery will still be not only desirable but inevitable.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @spiderman OP 16 Nov

People van thrive without any price signal of iron, corn, wheat or whatever have you?

People can thrive without risk hedging for loan defaults from corporates or car loans?

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 16 Nov

Please start producing wheat or corn and let me see how you will thrive producing, when some speculator will fuck up the price of grains on the market and all you will produce is more debt... Then say again that these traders are "good"...