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McCartney Taylor

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23rd May, 2024

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Biography

Holds two degrees in Engineering, Electrical and Petroleum. Proponent of using Machine Learning and Prado's Triple Barrier Method for strategy construction. Founder of Blackbeard Data Analytics, LLC and from that spun out Starker Baum Capital Management and the Harnessed Volatility Fund, LP which is in incubation.

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McCartney left a comment in the discussion Strategy Discussion: 411

There are lots of bugs in this code. You will need Claude to clean it up.  But there is a raw gem...

28 days ago

McCartney left a comment in the discussion Strategy Discussion: 245

I could easily add some ML forecasting and either PA online learning or reinforcement learning to...

3 months ago

McCartney left a comment in the discussion Strategy Discussion: 282

This is remarkable strategy. While there are some very obvious optimized parameters in here, that...

5 months ago

McCartney left a comment in the discussion Strategy Discussion: 245

I posted this not to share a strat, but to illustrate how easy it is to fool oneself into thinking...

7 months ago

McCartney left a comment in the discussion Strategy Discussion: 411

There are lots of bugs in this code. You will need Claude to clean it up.  But there is a raw gem...

28 days ago

McCartney left a comment in the discussion Strategy Discussion: 245

I could easily add some ML forecasting and either PA online learning or reinforcement learning to...

3 months ago

McCartney left a comment in the discussion Strategy Discussion: 282

This is remarkable strategy. While there are some very obvious optimized parameters in here, that...

5 months ago

McCartney left a comment in the discussion Strategy Discussion: 245

I posted this not to share a strat, but to illustrate how easy it is to fool oneself into thinking...

7 months ago

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