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f4stsc0pe

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f4stsc0pe

@f4stsc0pe

Physicist turning crypto degen and "HFT" LARPer

On the blocks

Joined December 2024

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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jan 21
Haven't posted a lot recently, been building a ton of infra for my HFT platform. I'm clearly pushing what python can do on an EC2. I'm really surprised that this can handle 5k WS msg / s parsing + logging so smoothly on a single core. A lot of grunt work, but now is really a
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jul 1, 2025
Today, it's been a month since I started crypto HFT I just had my first 30 min live run without any hiccups, clipping 100 bps in the process! It feels amazing, yet there's still so much work to be done to run it 24/7 and improve the strategy
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Sep 5, 2025
Coding and running a crypto HFT bot must be among the most autistic things I've done, and I've done quite a few There's nothing fundamentally difficult about it, only thousands of simple things that have to be executed perfectly Tedious and meticulous work is the essence of the
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jul 2, 2025
I just took a nap and inadvertently closed my laptop during a crypto "HFT" test run. As I reopened it, everything got back in sync with the market and went on as if nothing happened (minus the inventory I blindly carried for 20 mins). Getting confident in my OMS guys
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jul 6, 2025
Just spent the better part of a day thinking and reading about HFT from the angle: "what's Lindy and every good prop shop is likely doing" And this appeared in my feed It so concisely encapsulates everything I just wrote down in a 5p doc it's frustrating
Robot James 🤖🏖
@therobotjames
Jun 22, 2022
This is trading
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jul 3, 2025
Started well... can you see what went wrong? On the bright side my OMS is so robust, I now have a very consistent way of losing money Back working on my signals 🫡
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jul 7, 2025
So yeah, no matter how well you arb your way into good entries / exits, if you don't have a valid price model to estimate the risk you're warehousing, you're gonna get rekt Ask me how I know
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jul 16, 2025
Funny effect of latency when you're IOCing into positions and the market trends. \1
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jun 29, 2025
My signal generation takes 0.1 ms in average with very low std, I don't know why y'all hate python so much
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jul 18, 2025
Didn't expect that implementing proper logging in my python super "HFT" algo would be such a hassle Wtf, it's just writing stuff into files, right?
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Aug 19, 2025
Replying to @GryptoGoon
If I would ever do something illegal because you told me so, and you benefited from it, we would likely share the same cell But since you've got a phat ass, I'm sure we would find ways to spend this time
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jul 1, 2025
Tech tip: to stress-test your poller’s resync logic for WebSocket packet loss, walk out of Wi-Fi range until the connection degrades. Srly though, is there a better qwant way of doing this?
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Sep 4, 2025
For the Python maxxis, am I doing this right?
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f4stsc0pe
@f4stsc0pe
Jul 8, 2025
What if flow were the force, price the position, and order book the friction? Definitely not gonna be able to sleep tonight, gotta try this
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