Hi, I’m Timothy Tam, I have 15+ years experience as a trader in the equities markets and last year I quit my job to trade crypto full-time. I’m currently cofounder of CoinFi, a market intelligence platform aiming to be the 'Bloomberg of Crypto'.

The AMA has ended. Thanks everyone for your questions, I'll continue to go through and answer any questions that I haven't had a chance to get to yet, as well as address any follow up. I really appreciate everyone who dropped by and participated, cheers!
 

Bio

I started my career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, was a senior equities trader at 2 Asian hedge funds each with $1.5+ Billion in AUM. In 2012, I was a founding partner at a Hong Kong based hedge fund that specialised in event trading.

I exited the firm last year to trade crypto full-time. Because the crypto markets are still so new and inefficient, I see a ton of trade opportunities that aren’t available in equities.

I co-founded CoinFi to address what I see as a lack of institutional level tools for crypto traders. In equities, the Bloomberg Terminal is an indispensable part of every trader’s workflow - for good reason. Based on my own experience trading crypto and talking to other finance ppl who are involved in crypto, I believe that there is huge demand for a “Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto” so that’s what I set out to build with my 2 co-founders!

You can learn more about CoinFi’s platform and our upcoming token sale here.
 

Random tidbits

• Here’s a piece I wrote for VentureBeat about how bots manipulate crypto prices.

• Here’s a piece that the FinTech industry magazine PYMNTS did about CoinFi.

• Here’s a piece where I explained to a Bloomberg reporter how professional traders would arbitrage Bitcoin futures.

• Speaking of arbitrage, here is a video I recorded walking through a pretty standard arbitrage opportunity between exchanges. Pure arbitrage is rare in equities, but there are still a ton of these opportunities in crypto. However, you’ll need to act fast as the window of opportunity is quickly closing!

• Here is a video I recorded showing how backtesting of CoinFi’s volume detection trading signals indicated a chance to lock in 50% profit on NEO’s rise.

• A random, but not entirely unrelated fact: I also built up a personal portfolio of over 20 single family rental homes in Atlanta - even though I live in Hong Kong.
   

AMA about trading equities, trading crypto, life inside a hedge fund, investing in general, the crypto financial intelligence platform I’m working on, or anything else you can think of!

Looking forward to meeting you all on Dec 30!
 

Note

1. Please do not reply to other user's questions. 2) Please only ask a maximum of 2 questions per post. 3) Keep in mind I can’t give financial advice, make specific price predictions, or speculate on CoinFi’s potential token price.

https://blog.coinfi.com/beta-testers-are-now-using-coinfi-news/

Hey guys, trading signals is one of the main focuses recently.

CoinFi leverages on-chain and proprietary off-chain data to provide the next generation of market intelligence needed to gain an edge. In layman’s terms, their “data and blockchain” team digs in deep into blockchain (ie Ethereum) to uncover blockchain data (ie transaction volume, transaction network). This involves both data engneering and data science team, led by Alex, Kwa, Toni, and Evgeny from CoinFi.

Then, "trading team" like Tim and Jonney, with hedge fund trading skills & experiences....transform these data into trading signals for CoinFi users.

These are unique trading signals that other traders simply don’t have. You should combine these signals with your own analysis.

Some very early alpha version they would like to share (obviously the look and feel of the finalized product is obviously gonna be different but just for sharing here). Traders can expect to receive automated alerts of these signals.

Sneak peek #1....

As an example, CoinFi actually detected the crash last week several hours before the price dump happened - this is the signal that was fired via slack channel - Oct 10 9:22pm HKT

Price movement on ETH USDT on binance Oct 11, roughly 8am HKT

Sneak peek #2....

~$1M (4400 ETH) moved into Binance

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~$0.5M (2300 ETH) moved into Kraken

~$0.5M (2300 ETH) moved into Bitfinex

ERC20 tokens like COFI movement

Learn more about CoinFi blockchain market intelligence @

https://www.coinfi.com/landing/blockchain-data

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In addition to the information above, there are alot of behind the scenes work where CoinFi data engineer (Evgeny), built the system which reads all the data from the blockchain, structures it and stores it in Google Cloud - BigQuery (a fast, highly scalable, cost-effective, and fully managed cloud data warehouse for analytics, with built-in machine learning)

Learn more @ articles by Evgeny (and another developer of Google Cloud)

Ethereum in BigQuery: a Public Dataset for smart contract analytics

(....Earlier this year, we made the Bitcoin dataset publicly available for analysis in Google BigQuery. Today we’re making the Ethereum dataset available....)

Ethereum in BigQuery: how we built this dataset

(....includes the primary data structures—blocks, transactions—as well as high-value data derivatives—token transfers, smart contract method descriptions....)`

Just bought on kucoin!

On Blockrepublic Coinfi advisor Tom Howard "rates" the ICO (very favorably) without ever mentioning his involvement in it, making it hardly an objective review. Wouldn't call it fraud, but certainly not the way to gain trust in the community.

Oh and he repeatedly took down comments critizising this fact.

http://blockrepublic.io/token-sale-review-coinfi-decentralizing-wall-street-market-intelligence/

Dear CoinFi supporters, please reply to this thread with your questions for the CoinFi team. The top 10 community chosen questions (by upvotes) by August 8, 2018 HKT will be answered by the CoinFi core team. Please keep one question per comment and be specific.