[steveitis]

I am very angry about this. I was damned close to going live. My code was written. My backtesting showing amazing results.

Now every douchenozzle on earth will be onboard the bandwagon, and render it useless.

EVERY TIME I HAVE A GOOD IDEA SOMEONE BEATS ME TO IT! WHARBLEGLARBLE!

[steveitis]

BTW - My 'Calmness Indicator' was simply the ratio of capital letters and exclamation marks to other text. It wasn't 87 percent, but close enough.

HULK SMASH! BAD SCIENTISTS! BAD!

[pavel_lishin]

Do you have any idea what you would have done after your project went live?

Because you can still beat them to that.

[steveitis]

Yes. I do. I was going to bet on the supershort, and superlong funds. (2-4 x average market returns) for short term periods, and double my money every few days. I was only waiting to build capital.

Now I have zero time to build capital before it's leveraged away. FUDGE!

I am righteously pissed off now. I had investors on the hook. now it will all be arbitraged away from me.

It's just like quicksilverscreen when Rupert Murdoch litigated it away (one of the senators who voted for the DMCA was one of the lawyers defending Fox).

I am ANGRY.

[ld50]

what's to keep you from going live right now? credit's cheap. max out a credit card? trade on margin? you really have no access to capital? --or you do but you'd rather use someone elses? pivot?

i GUARANTEE you that people are already trading based on twitter data. i doubt you're really as bad off as you think.

..or maybe you are. yes. actually, your position is hopeless. might as well go open source with it now. sourceforge link pls?

[steveitis]

I have so damned many phonecalls to make tomorrow. A lot of powerful, and wealthy people will never talk to me again because of this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuckity. Fuck.

[ghotli]

You may be mad, but unfortunately this is not the place for it. Let us know if it pans out.

[steveitis]

I just lost billions of potential dollars, because some college kid couldn't see the practical applications and published. What would your response be?

What if you were sleeping in someone else's garage, it was less than freezing temperature outside, someone had stolen your car a few weeks ago, and you had put your own kneecaps on the line as collateral? What would it be then?

Frankly, I think I'm holding together rather well given my circumstances.

[qq66]

Relax, dude, I've heard exactly this idea pitched by 2 other people, you'd have been up against "douchenozzles" even if this "douchenozzle" hadn't published.

[dlnovell]

Your calmness index is pretty low right now. I wonder how this will affect the market.