I went to 4 talks. First was online marketing - customer aquisition, second was augmented reality - as a game, the third was mobile game - can it be profitable and the last reengineer the hk futures market (the most interesting and the most funniest).
Online Marketing - Speaker - Sarah -
The topic was interesting. People like always wanted to know what it the SECRET to acquire customers. The speaker - Sarah (used to work for EuroStar).
The only thing that I learned from this talk was paid search. It will drive traffic to your site and affliate could also bring on some positive results. The rest…I think EuroStar still use PRICE as a competitive advantage. Just like any other budget airlines, price and advanced booking is the key.
Augmented Reality - Speaker - Ben Lau
You can check out the Wiki if you don’t know what it’s.
It new stuff to me. That is why Barcamp is so interesting and you can’t get this info anywhere unless you go to a paid seminar.
Can it be a commercially viable products? Well, still a long way. But interesting to know…
Mobile Games - Speaker Kin Ko - Lakoo.cn
Now, this guy you wanna to know. If you are a Java Mobile games developer and wants to get into the chinese market. This is the guy that will bring you in.
He has developed 2 Java API that can port into any telcos in China. You can ride on his portal and API’s without the headache of talking to each telcos. Also, all the payment gateway from SMS, prepaid card, alipay and others are in place. Off course, riding on his platform, you need to share profit. No free lunch…ok…
Reverse Engineer Hong Kong Futures Market - Speaker - Wang Hang
This is by-far the most interesting and funniest speaker. I want to say…he is a brillant guy, too.
The way he presented is like he has found the secret of unlocking the Hong Kong Stock Index behavior and he found a way to make money out of this. He was like damned excited and wanted to share this ’secret’.
Well…people…there is no secret. He just found another way of doing it…that all. All he did was trying to retrieve the Tick Data from the net and testing it with indicators like Linear Regression. He has Data feed but his data feed is via some local stockbroker that stream to a JAVA chart.
Wang, if you are reading this (like if my blog hv tonnes of people coming to read..hehhe), you don’t hv to use this method to do it. You can setup an account with Interactive Brokers. IB provide data feed and historical data. Plus they will give u the API to port into their data server. Then download a software called Tradestation 2K (it’s a discontinued version but you can find it through BT). I like Tradestation 2K because you can program it anyway you want and backtest it. From here, you can test all kind of time frame using different indicators. Linear Regression is good but it’s not the ultimate. There must be some filtering technique to prevent fake price spike.
What Wang showed was a good direction but it’s a long way from profitability. He shoud test the data with higher time frame and different indicators. He might sees a different picture. The goal is to trade less but with maximum kill (profit).
Aiya…I wrote too much. Well, Barcamp was awesome. I want to thank all the sponsors and organizers for making this happen. Every year, the experience was different. Last year, I predict the same kind of crowd would be around for this Barcamp but I was wrong. There were a lot new faces and new technologies talk. Let hope next year is far more different.
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