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"scalpl is a project written by someone who is clearly having a great time" - @byrneseyeview

Legal-ease

The software is provided devoid of warantee, guarranty, liesense, and noncence: "do as thou wilt".

Please be advised that this use of the software renders varying signals to market participants in a manner that amplifies pre-existing biases. Performing such acts in jurisdictia where the potential consequences of such actions are punishable is liable to offend my religion, and should be considered a capital offense, insofar as such are punishable by and large small etc etc etc.

The concurrancy mechanisms employed by the procurrency silencer have been empirically demonstrated to contain faults, and it is thus a great way to have a bad time if you rely on the source code without reading it, aloud!

PROCLAIMER REGARDING CONTINUITY

Reports of roughness and density have been greatly adjagitated; thus, if you have suggestions for theme songs, please speak, although you are encouraged to consider whether music is merely a part of nature, xor the imposition from without of order upon chaos.

Abstract

There will be an engine for expressing arbitrarily intricate policies for financial planning, execution, and study thruwaut ; today, it is hardcoded as a market maker. We also endeavor to provide a constructive extension of Kerckhoffs's Law to game theory, although it may require [un?]countably infinitely many steps.

Exchanges

Several exchanges were supported: Bitfinex, BTC-e, and Kraken. ScalpL also supported MPExAgent, and if your hand still plays such tables, there is no conceivably indubitable reason for such bits to have rot; fresh additions are clients for the Baloney Exchange, and hazardous support for casinos such as bitmexicom, and someday, maybe, also, ones that do not require selfies, residences, etc.

Requirements

The following Common Lisp compilers are tested regularly:

• SBCL
• Clozure CL

The following almost suffice, although not quite:

• Embeddable Common Lisp

Please let me know if you use this program with other compilers.

Excuses and Explanations

• Kevin Simler's thoughts on wealth, specifically parts II-IV (the "Congolese Trading Window"), outline the ideological basis;

• Christ Stucchio's HFT Apology outlines the mechanics of automated market making (ie, real world Congolese Window Trading);

• Peter Seibel's introduction to the excellent Practical Common Lisp lays out the factors behind the unconventional yet unavoidable language choice; the book itself lights the larval lisper's quest; and

• Timothy B Lee's cards summarize the Bitcoin phenomenon for the unfamiliar, purely as enrichment; though catalyzed by cryptocurrency, ScalpL itself is agn-asset-ic.

Current Status

This program is a work in progress, built by a "Lone Wolf" madman. You should thus expect rudeness and flippancy, unless you pay for a consultation.

Nature of the Beast

• Please be a where of false friends, read ear rings, and closed enemies.

• Harvesting progresses best when the market moves harmoniously with the configured parameters: for example, the most profitable targeting for a market which trends sideways will be equal allocation.

• Allocation too far in the "wrong" direction other results in the harvester accumulating the asset unloaded by other market participants, eventually getting "run over": the portfolio is sufficiently imbalanced to prevent further market making. One can either wait for the trend to reverse, or rebalance at a loss.

• Poorly calibrated resilience also weakens returns: if the resilience is too high compared to current market activity, execution volume suffers; too low, and the increased volume is only beneficial when the market moves match the targeting feedback cycle (mismatch accelerates the "running-over").

• The specific version of Murphy's Law applicable here is that if you ever look back at the screen after your account was profitable, you will find that it has managed to enter a losing position while your attention was elsewhere.

Past Performance

• Although it's more indicative of others' past shame, than anybody's future luck, there were a dozenscore happy days aiming at an APR north of a lucky number seven.

• There is no cause for suspicion of bucket shop shenanigans below sustained alpha extrapolating to quarterly doublings. Although daily alpha can easily cross this level due to the misfortunes of others, a weekly sustain has yet to be witnessed.