Hunt Gather Trade

Getting Wild with 800 Lines (of Code)

Taking flat data files (binary and text, courtesy of Sierra Chart) and building continuous futures contracts to export to CSV.

Oct 8 • 

Larry Kann

2

September 2025

How NOT to use Sierra Chart’s DTC Server to Pull Granular Futures Data

This one was a flop, but I wanted to share anyway.

Sep 26 • 

Larry Kann

2

How Market Data Reaches You

Part two of the market data for quants series. Just more information you should know.

Sep 16 • 

Larry Kann

4

A quick guide to using Python for market data

Part 1 of 2. Just showing you simple ways to use Python to get data for testing.

Sep 15 • 

Larry Kann

3

Market Data for Quants

Honestly, the data matters no matter what kind of trader you are. It matters at least enough that you should know about it anyway.

Sep 5 • 

Larry Kann

4

June 2025

The path to quant trading

Is there actually a destination at the end?

Jun 24 • 

Larry Kann

21

Building quantKit -- Why I'm diving deep into stochastic finance

From burnout to breakthrough: Why I'm building quantKit from scratch

Jun 7 • 

Larry Kann

20

May 2025

Tariffs, China, and the Real Cost of Chinese Manufacturing

This seems to be a hot topic for folks right now. Unfortunately, people seem to miss some key points when discussing this subject.

May 8 • 

Larry Kann

4

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April 2025

Updating quantKit, the Python tool kit we are creating for research

Discussing updates to Python code base and goals for the project.

Apr 18 • 

Larry Kann

5

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March 2025

HGT Polls

I want to know what you think, so I created a bunch of polls to find out.

Mar 17 • 

Larry Kann

6

Updates -- TL;DR -- 03/17/2025

Stop updating and start publishing real content, Larry.

Mar 17 • 

Larry Kann

2

Stare long into the abyss...

Gettin' existential in this one, bruh.

Mar 17 • 

Larry Kann

2