u/ab_do20_75

keep replying to threads here about backtests and validation and it made me realize i don't actually have a clean way to tell which of my own setups is worth keeping vs which one is just along for the ride. if the account is up overall i assume everything's fine, but that's obviously not really true if one system is bleeding and another is covering for it. anyone actually separate performance by strategy or is everyone just watching the whole account like i am

i spent a few months learning C and then i switched to python for my school the moment i actually understood what malloc and free do at the hardware level i realized every high level language was hiding this from me the whole time. felt like seeing behind the curtain. anyone else have that moment where C made other languages make more sense

been learning C for a while now and i keep running into things that seem obvious in hindsight but took me way too long to figure out on my own. curious what concepts or tricks actually clicked for you that made everything easier

anyone else feel like you're too moroccan for europeans and too european for moroccans? went back to visit family last month and kept getting comments about how i've changed, then come back here and i'm still "the moroccan guy". curious if others deal with this or if it gets better with time