Markets & Macro
Rates, positioning, market structure, and practical portfolio ideas.
Browse the writingResearch, software, and practical systems
A cleaner home for Jeremy Whittaker’s market work, code, housing analysis, and civic projects.
The site now reads the way the work actually behaves: research-driven, implementation-heavy, and grounded in real-world systems rather than generic blog categories.
- Markets and macro
- Python and automation
- Arizona housing and rates
- Energy and civic systems
- 120+ published articles
- 17 years of archived work
- 34+ reference pages and dashboards
Positioning
Personal flagship first, with businesses and side projects supporting the main body of published work.
What the site is actually about
Four clear tracks replace the old catch-all menu.
Code & Automation
Python walkthroughs, data pipelines, APIs, and automations that solve specific problems.
Start with Polymarket dataArizona Housing
Local real-estate dashboards, housing trends, and mortgage-rate context.
See housing trendsEnergy & Civic Work
Distributed energy, local policy, and civic-side automation projects.
Read the latest energy postSelected work
Curated entry points into the strongest existing content.
These sections use the current WordPress content, but they frame it around clear questions and practical use cases instead of chronology.
Markets & macro
Analysis that blends rates, macro, and market plumbing
These are the pieces that best explain the site: actionable market work, practical arbitrage, and data-backed market commentary.
FOMC Rate Probabilities
This page is not intended to be viewed on a mobile device. This heatmap shows the probability of different Federal Reserve target rate changes over time, providing insight…
S&P 500 with PE Ratio
Analyzing Any Polymarket User’s Trades Using Polygon
Polymarket.com, a prediction market platform, operates on the Ethereum blockchain through the Polygon network, making it possible to analyze user transactions directly from the blockchain. By accessing a…
How to Buy Gold for Less Than Spot
You may have heard recently Costco decided to start selling gold bars and coins. Here's how you can get them at less than spot value. Today I logged…
Code & automation
Technical walkthroughs with direct, practical outputs
Python, APIs, OCR, and data tooling appear here as implementation details, not abstractions.
Accessing Polymarket.com Data in Python
Recently I started exploring arbitrage opportunities in the Polymarket.com world. I quickly realized I would need faster access to the data. So I wrote some Python programs to…
A Deep Dive into Intraday Trading Costs with Python, Alpaca’s API, and SIP Data
In the realm of intraday trading, managing and minimizing trading costs is not just a practice; it's a necessity. A strategy that seems profitable on paper can quickly…
Extracting text from a PDF using OCR, Python, and Google Colab for free
If you've ever downloaded a scanned PDF and tried to search it you'll quickly realize this isn't possible. Here is how you can use Python to extract the…
Automating 1099 statements from TreasuryDirect.gov
Ok, so Ibonds had a huge rate of return last year. Perhaps you're like me and you created.. a few hundred accounts. Well, now you have a major…
Arizona housing & rates
A local lens on housing, affordability, and mortgage pressure
These pages and articles turn national macro into local Arizona housing context.
Protected: Arizona Housing Market Trends & Forecast
Arizona Housing Market Trends & Forecast Turn the screen sideways (landscape) for plots to work correctly or view on a non-mobile device. The Average Payment to Income chart…
Real Estate Trends
Real Estate Trends The Average Payment to Income chart reflects the average payment relative to the income of the average person. This is probably the single most important…
Houses over $1M in Arizona are selling at their fastest pace, ever.
Today, I dove into housing data and decided to filter houses based on price to determine how it impacted sales numbers. The graph below illustrates Listings Under Contract…
Mortgage Rates on Hold? Latest FED Futures Flip Forecast for March
Fed Futures have indicated a change in the wind regarding the Federal Reserve's upcoming policy decisions. While everyone was anticipating rate cuts for the March meeting now seem…
Energy & civic systems
Where local policy, infrastructure, and practical engineering meet
This strand makes the site distinctive: batteries, SRP policy, HOA tooling, and public-interest automation.
The Libertarian Case for Decentralized Energy — and My Votes in the SRP Election
For me solar and electric cars have always been mainly about independence. Independence from big government, corporations, and foreign wars. Over my entire adult life I have driven…
Building a DIY Powerwall to offset peak demand cost PT1, why?
Recently, I decided to embark on a DIY Powerwall project for my house. The first challenge I faced was determining the appropriate size for the system. Living in…
How I Built a Custom GPT to Interpret and Answer Questions About my HOA Governing Documents
Exploring the realm of custom GPTs opens up a world of possibilities that you might not be aware of yet. For those who haven't dived into this feature,…
Automating notification updates on court cases for Maricopa County Superior Court
Recently, I needed real-time updates for a court case affecting a house I was purchasing. Instead of constantly checking the case manually, I wrote a Python script to…
Dashboards and reference pages
Evergreen pages should be easy to reach, crawl, and revisit.
This cluster is important for both users and search engines because it gives the site a clear internal structure beyond the article archive.
About Jeremy
A personal site with a long technical and analytical operating history behind it.
Why this site exists
The existing archive shows a pattern: market analysis, Python-based automation, Arizona housing work, teaching, and public-interest projects. The rebuild leans into that pattern instead of burying it under a legacy blog shell.
- Principles Integrity, compounding skills, community, and practical independence all show up in the archived writing.
- Experience The resume spans teaching, systems work, entrepreneurship, and markets, which explains why the content crosses disciplines so naturally.
- Publishing lens The strongest posts are not generic opinion pieces. They usually start with a real system, collect data, and publish the implementation details.
Related projects and businesses
These remain important, but they now support the flagship personal site instead of dominating the main navigation.
- Whittaker Quantitative Alpha Technologies Quantitative tooling and related technical work.
- Velocity Technologies Technology and consulting work outside the publishing site.
- AZ HOA Transparency Project A related public-interest project focused on HOA transparency and tooling.
Latest writing
New work still matters, but it now sits inside a stronger editorial frame.
The Libertarian Case for Decentralized Energy — and My Votes in the SRP Election
For me solar and electric cars have always been mainly about independence. Independence from big government, corporations, and foreign wars. Over my entire adult life I have driven…
YouTube Videos to MP3 and Transcription
I find myself listening to videos on YouTube quite frequently where it would be nice to dump them into an MP3 and take them on the road. This…
Analyzing Any Polymarket User’s Trades Using Polygon
Polymarket.com, a prediction market platform, operates on the Ethereum blockchain through the Polygon network, making it possible to analyze user transactions directly from the blockchain. By accessing a…
Arbitrage in Polymarket.com
About a month ago, I noticed some arbitrage opportunities on Polymarket.com. However, the liquidity on the platform isn't significant enough for me to pursue this further. I'm planning…
Degenerate Gambling on Polymarket.com: Picking Up Pennies in Front of a Steamroller… for a 12.09% Yield?
Recently, I placed a bet on Polymarket.com, speculating that Kamala Harris and JD Vance will not debate before the upcoming election. With just 60 days left, the odds…
Degenerate Gambler or Investor? Analyzing Polymarket’s “Will Apple Remain the Largest Company” Bet
I've spent the last couple of weeks shifting my focus toward finding arbitrage opportunities in the betting markets. Today, I came across an intriguing bet on Polymarket: “Will…
