Recent content by aPismoClam

just flashing a quote requires one level of performance, heavy numbercrunching of the quotes, substantially more. *** anyway, since it became all about speed, I've lost interest.

thanks all. still listening...

You assumed correctly. A lot of people and institutions don't. But I don't know who everyone's pointing their fingers at these days. If it's Wall Street (colloqially), trust me, friend, it deserves it. Yes, some of the finest people I know work or worked on Wall Street...

What I really want to know is, what prop traders are making money. I don't want details, but the truth would be nice. Lack of liquidity is a killer. So is there any liquidity in your market? The shift away from open-outcry exchanges has changed everything. What do markets act like...

here's all you need to know about volatility: if high, it'll get higher and then get low. And vice versa.<P>if market makers are buying it, you should too, and vice versa.

not only did i not follow this, i'm not so sure what i wrote inspired it.

but at least this guy did something useful to make his money.

Friends, traders, wannabes: (Well, wannabes might wanna just watch). As you may (but most likely do not) recall, I exhausted a considerable part of my waning youth as a prop trader. I finally faced the music that it was nearly impossible to beat the house and trade my style, which is...

IB apparently has their marketing angle covered by employing shills to beat their tom-toms on trading message boards. From the moment I first encountered those morons years ago until this very day I still say they're a whorehouse. I tooled up a market-making application on their API last...

so, has anyone who's used ib found themselves wondering if they pick off their own customers?

america is the brains and muscle behind the "global marketplace." open your eyes, kid. why do you think world stock markets panic if we have a bad day.

yeah. it's kind of like foxhole bonding or something like that.

haven't been there in years. i had no comment because...i'm looking for my spot on the dollar, and I want everyone else to keep hating it.

what's so excellent? Bill Gross thinks he's God.