<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <id>https://kdkkh.github.io/</id><title>Kihoon Kim — Notes</title><subtitle>Engineering notes from a senior backend developer in Korea.</subtitle> <updated>2026-05-17T22:26:20+09:00</updated> <author> <name>Kihoon Kim</name> <uri>https://kdkkh.github.io/</uri> </author><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://kdkkh.github.io/feed.xml"/><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en" href="https://kdkkh.github.io/"/> <generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator> <rights> © 2026 Kihoon Kim </rights> <icon>/assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico</icon> <logo>/assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png</logo> <entry><title>Cross-Exchange Arbitrage — When a 3% Margin Accidentally Rode an 8x Bull Run (2017)</title><link href="https://kdkkh.github.io/posts/cross-exchange-arbitrage-2017/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Cross-Exchange Arbitrage — When a 3% Margin Accidentally Rode an 8x Bull Run (2017)" /><published>2026-05-17T01:00:00+09:00</published> <updated>2026-05-17T01:00:00+09:00</updated> <id>https://kdkkh.github.io/posts/cross-exchange-arbitrage-2017/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://kdkkh.github.io/posts/cross-exchange-arbitrage-2017/" /> <author> <name>Kihoon Kim</name> </author> <category term="Trading" /> <category term="Crypto" /> <summary>This is Part 2. Part 1 covered DART-based Korean equity automation (2009–2015). The Setup This happened in 2017 — the year the Asian cryptocurrency boom truly started. At the time I was running a mining operation. “Running” is generous — it was about 90% automated, and I just monitored it occasionally. While figuring out how to convert mined coins to Korean Won, I noticed that the same coi...</summary> </entry> <entry><title>DART Scraping and One-Second Trading — Korean Equity Automation, 2009–2015</title><link href="https://kdkkh.github.io/posts/dart-scraping-and-one-second-trading/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="DART Scraping and One-Second Trading — Korean Equity Automation, 2009–2015" /><published>2026-05-17T00:00:00+09:00</published> <updated>2026-05-17T22:26:05+09:00</updated> <id>https://kdkkh.github.io/posts/dart-scraping-and-one-second-trading/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://kdkkh.github.io/posts/dart-scraping-and-one-second-trading/" /> <author> <name>Kihoon Kim</name> </author> <category term="Trading" /> <category term="Systems" /> <summary>This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 covers cross-exchange cryptocurrency arbitrage (2017). Context: Who I Was in 2009 In 2009 I was a senior researcher at a fabless security camera company called INICS. My stack was FPGA Verilog HDL, embedded C/C++, ModelSim, and MATLAB. I designed auto-exposure, auto-focus, and Smart IR algorithms for CCTV cameras. My daily tools were oscilloscopes...</summary> </entry> </feed>
