Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing

Sebastian Raffaele

👤 Person
306 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

But when the market would change, it would start to struggle. What we actually did to start to get it to be able to flow with the market like it does now, we had to go deep into quantitative maths and essentially build a model based on math that could accurately trade the market.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

But when the market would change, it would start to struggle. What we actually did to start to get it to be able to flow with the market like it does now, we had to go deep into quantitative maths and essentially build a model based on math that could accurately trade the market.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And then we had to essentially reprocess over and over again and start to find patterns in the market and slowly adapt and apply like that. Within, to be honest, a few months, we had something that was working very well. But where it is now compared to back then is just crazy. Even while we were just at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville in the last week, we made so much progress and innovation.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And then we had to essentially reprocess over and over again and start to find patterns in the market and slowly adapt and apply like that. Within, to be honest, a few months, we had something that was working very well. But where it is now compared to back then is just crazy. Even while we were just at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville in the last week, we made so much progress and innovation.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And then we had to essentially reprocess over and over again and start to find patterns in the market and slowly adapt and apply like that. Within, to be honest, a few months, we had something that was working very well. But where it is now compared to back then is just crazy. Even while we were just at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville in the last week, we made so much progress and innovation.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

When you're building trading strategies, very similar in a lot of ways to the tech world, like you can't ever stop developing. You never stop building. And the second that you think you've figured it out or the second that you think you've got this huge edge on, the market will humble you very quickly. So it is a thing where the development never stops.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

When you're building trading strategies, very similar in a lot of ways to the tech world, like you can't ever stop developing. You never stop building. And the second that you think you've figured it out or the second that you think you've got this huge edge on, the market will humble you very quickly. So it is a thing where the development never stops.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

When you're building trading strategies, very similar in a lot of ways to the tech world, like you can't ever stop developing. You never stop building. And the second that you think you've figured it out or the second that you think you've got this huge edge on, the market will humble you very quickly. So it is a thing where the development never stops.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

But that's essentially how we took it from the point where it would lose money all the time to be in a position where it can be consistently profitable. And it was through reprocessing of data, but also using real money in the market. If you're around playing on demo accounts and playing around on the exchanges with demo funds, this is okay.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

But that's essentially how we took it from the point where it would lose money all the time to be in a position where it can be consistently profitable. And it was through reprocessing of data, but also using real money in the market. If you're around playing on demo accounts and playing around on the exchanges with demo funds, this is okay.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

But that's essentially how we took it from the point where it would lose money all the time to be in a position where it can be consistently profitable. And it was through reprocessing of data, but also using real money in the market. If you're around playing on demo accounts and playing around on the exchanges with demo funds, this is okay.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

But just be aware that when you're actually trading live in a market, there's a lot of metrics that are not going to be showing up when you're doing these demos. I hear you saying we.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

But just be aware that when you're actually trading live in a market, there's a lot of metrics that are not going to be showing up when you're doing these demos. I hear you saying we.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

But just be aware that when you're actually trading live in a market, there's a lot of metrics that are not going to be showing up when you're doing these demos. I hear you saying we.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

The culture of what we've built. And I think the team we've built is our biggest asset. Me and Costa got the business off the ground. But if we didn't build this team, we wouldn't have got anywhere. And I understand that at the deepest level. I even got stuck in moments where I'm like, oh, we want to do it all ourselves, but it's just unrealistic.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

The culture of what we've built. And I think the team we've built is our biggest asset. Me and Costa got the business off the ground. But if we didn't build this team, we wouldn't have got anywhere. And I understand that at the deepest level. I even got stuck in moments where I'm like, oh, we want to do it all ourselves, but it's just unrealistic.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

The culture of what we've built. And I think the team we've built is our biggest asset. Me and Costa got the business off the ground. But if we didn't build this team, we wouldn't have got anywhere. And I understand that at the deepest level. I even got stuck in moments where I'm like, oh, we want to do it all ourselves, but it's just unrealistic.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

You need to find people who, one, have the skill set you're looking for, but also I think it's about finding people who are really passionate about what you're doing within your business. Costa looks after hiring the team of our sales reps, and I've always looked after hiring the developers that work under me.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

You need to find people who, one, have the skill set you're looking for, but also I think it's about finding people who are really passionate about what you're doing within your business. Costa looks after hiring the team of our sales reps, and I've always looked after hiring the developers that work under me.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

You need to find people who, one, have the skill set you're looking for, but also I think it's about finding people who are really passionate about what you're doing within your business. Costa looks after hiring the team of our sales reps, and I've always looked after hiring the developers that work under me.