Tag Archives: Midas51

Midas51: third time is the charm

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Josh Heitzman

32% CAGR with a maximum drawdown of -34% is the simulated yield from an ensemble learning model discovered in Midas51’s third iteration. Continue reading →

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Vagrant rocks and Midas51 to be hosted on Linux

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Josh Heitzman

While I was surprised to discover that Windows Azure provided Linux VMs at a significantly cheaper rate then Windows VMs, I decided to roll with it since Python has excellent cross-platform compatibility.  After getting CentOS 6, Debian 7 and Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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Midas51, hello and meet Grail42

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Josh Heitzman

Work on a proof of concept for software to aid with investment decisions began two months ago.  The concept has proven sufficiently promising to warrant continuing investment as Project Midas51. The code hacked for the proof of concept is throw-away … Continue reading →

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New Project: Investment Decision Aid

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Josh Heitzman

My next side project will be an Azure app that aids people in decision making via interactive algorithms that analyze the data underlying the interactive controls, the data stored about the specific user, and the general data stored in the … Continue reading →

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